PPE

Safety Tips

Prevent foot pain and injuries

Job-related foot pain and injuries can vary from mild, such as a blister caused by a work boot, to severe, such as the amputation of toes after a crushing injury.
Workplace Solutions

Respirator fit tests and facial hair

If I can get a worker with facial hair to pass a quantitative fit test using a PortaCount, can I then allow that worker to wear the full facepiece without him needing to shave?
Workplace Solutions

Trends in personal protective equipment

Personal protective equipment manufacturers talked to S+H about current trends in PPE, the challenges their customers are facing, and new technologies that are here or on the horizon.
Workplace Solutions

Women’s flame-resistant clothing

Eight styles have been added to Carhartt’s flame-resistant line. The new assortment for women includes a jacket, denim pant, canvas pant, coverall, woven shirt and three knit shirts.
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Flame-retardant fabric

INVISTA’s Cordura brand has teamed up with Carrington to offer a flame-retardant fabric engineered with Cordura NYCO fabric technology to enhance durability.
Workplace Solutions

Anti-fog eyewear coating

The IQuity Anti-Fog Coating outlasts and outperforms mainstream hydrophobic coatings.
Workplace Solutions

Protective cleanroom apparel

The LiquidGuard line of cleanroom apparel features a proprietary, microporous material that delivers 67 percent more liquid-resistant protection than Tyvek apparel, with 100 percent particle holdout. It also provides 25 percent more breathability for venting and cooling.
Workplace Solutions

Performance fabric

The Chill-Its Multi-Band program allows customers to add a logo, slogan or creed to technical, moisture-wicking fabric.
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Workplace Solutions

How contaminants affect flame-resistant clothing

Do worksite contaminants affect FR apparel?
News

UK study shows less than one-third of women workers have properly fitting PPE

London – Only 29 percent of women who wear personal protective equipment on the job in the United Kingdom receive PPE specifically contoured to their gender, according to a recent report from the Trades Union Congress, a UK-based federation of labor unions.
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