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The Best Workwear Brands to Wear in 2022/2023

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Workwear Brands to Wear in 2022/2023 Construction is a dangerous, dirty and high-stress job. Workers must use heavy tools, lift heavy materials, and work at heights. Moreover, they often do so in all kinds of weather conditions that expose them to wind, rain and sun. All of these factors combined make it crucial for workers to be wearing the correct type of clothing when they’re on site.Construction workwear is designed specifically to protect workers from falls, cuts and scrapes, UV rays, and other external hazards. It’s also important that the garments are comfortable enough to wear all day long without...

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Boiler Suits: What to Know About This Stylish Workwear Trend

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Boiler Suits: What to Know Boiler suits are widely known to safeguard workers against the spills of harmful chemicals and toxins. In industrial areas, protective clothing is necessary. As such, boiler suits were invented to offer safety and comfort as they are usually made of materials such as denim, cotton, paper, and even nylon.  Boiler suits are now considered one of the tools that ensure that a workplace is safe, clean, and healthy for all staff and employees. Read on to learn and discover more about this stylish workwear trend. The Rise of the Boiler Suit The name comes from...

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Five Reasons to Buy Blaklader Workwear

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When you’re looking for workwear garments, Blaklader workwear is hard to beat. Whether you work in a workshop with grinding sparks flying, on a muddy building site or outside in cold biting winds, Blaklader workwear’s resistance is designed to protect you when you work in exposed environments. That’s why we here at Active Workwear are proud to offer Blaklader’s extensive range of clothing. As Blaklader’s clothing range is so impressively large, we can’t possibly cover it all in this blog. However, we can explore the types of clothing that they offer as part of their range that we find particularly...

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The Importance of High Visibility Clothing in the Workplace

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The correct use of high visibility (HV) clothing is a relatively simple and inexpensive precaution to put into effect, but it plays a major role in maintaining safety and preventing accidents. Here, we review why HV clothing is important in the workplace. High-visibility clothing reduces the risk of accidents and fatalities in busy environments where there is vehicular traffic - in construction areas, marshalling yards and industrial premises. At locations such as these, high visibility workwear or PPE (personal protective equipment) is required by Health and Safety regulations. Similarly, in large storage aisles and warehouses, forklifts can be relatively silent...

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PPE a Guide from the HSE

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Why is Personal Protective Equipment important? By making the workplace safe which includes providing instructions, procedures, training and supervision to encourage people to work safely and responsibly. Even where engineering controls and safe systems of work have been applied, some hazards might remain. These include injuries to: the lungs, eg from breathing in contaminated air the head and feet, eg from falling materials the eyes, eg from flying particles or splashes of corrosive liquids the skin, eg from contact with corrosive materials the body, eg from extremes of heat or cold PPE is needed in these cases to reduce the...

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