Safety Clothing

Safety Clothing has been defined as clothing affording protection which is intended to be worn by people at work and which protect them against one or more risks to their health or safety.

Safety clothing has been around since Adam was a boy to protect people from injury.  Over the years technology has changed the way we work and the industries we work in, and therefore Safety clothing has to change to keep up with the hazards those industries generate.

These days the different types of safety clothing are designed to protect people in a wide array of industries such as Site Safety, Security, Timber, Mining, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Transport, Working at heights, Viticulture, Search and Rescue, Automotive, Shipping, Chemicals, Transport and Distribution, Warehousing, Computer, Cosmetics, Film, Fishing, Food, Hospitality, Military, Metalworking, Petroleum. Pharmaceutical, Plastics, Pulp and paper, Services, Tourism, and even Private spaceflight, among many other industries

Safety clothing comes in everything from underwear to overcoats, and can protect workers from chemical or metal splashes, dust, gas and vapour, radiation, impact from falling or flying objects, head bumping, hair entanglement, temperature extremes, adverse weather, chemical or metal splash, spray from pressure leaks or spray guns, excessive wear or entanglement of own clothing, abrasion, temperature extremes, cuts and punctures, impact, chemicals, electric shock, skin infection, disease or contamination, wet, electrostatic build-up, slipping, and more.  

Most legislation states that the main requirement of safety clothing at work is to accompany higher control measures and to adequately protect the wearer from the hazards and risks.