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How to get your teams to wear the right PPE

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Designed to protect workers from specific hazards and prevent long term damage from occurring, PPE can prove vital when carrying out your everyday job role. 

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Tips on choosing the best workwear for you and your team

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Helly Hanse Merino Base Layers ReviewWhether you’re responsible for ensuring your team has the right uniform, you’re searching for the most suitable PPE workwear, or you’re simply looking for workwear for yourself, the ranges now available can make the entire process daunting.   Corporate uniforms, however, are areas that are growing increasingly in popularity. Seen to help provide consistency of brand, with a company being able to protect and promote their image and reputation further.  However, there are pros and cons to bespoke corporate clothing, and, in this post, we look at these in further detail and give more information on how...

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Sustainable workwear – is there such a thing?

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The most straightforward answer we can give to this question is yes.  However, not many people know or understand sustainable and ethical workwear, nor do we know just what to look for when working with workwear suppliers and brands.  If you’re responsible for the corporate clothing attire for your company, then you will most likely be looking for quality clothing. Workwear that is comfortable, durable, and ultimately fit for purpose.  Today there are also considerations to be made regarding where clothing is manufactured and the impact on the environment.  By considering this criterion too, you can begin to build upon...

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How to wash your Helly Hansen waterproof jacket

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No matter how hard we try, jackets get dirty.  Of course, they do! We wear them while we work, when we’re out walking, fishing, hiking, and more.  Unfortunately, waterproof jackets attract dirt and debris, which can settle on the jacket once it comes into contact with the material. This dirt and debris can damage the coat's waterproof coating, resulting in moisture seeping into the fabric and getting you wet!  Before putting your jacket in the washing machine, there are several things to take into consideration with HH jackets to maintain the high-quality waterproof element.  To help keep your jacket as...

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CHRISTMAS UPDATE - GO ON - SMILE, IT'S GOOD FOR YOU

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CHRISTMAS UPDATE - GO ON - SMILE, IT'S GOOD FOR YOU Another year has zoomed by and it is time for us to think about how we can end the decade with a chuckle or two.  AND how best to blow away the “B” word cobwebs and the “E” word euphoria or despair depending on your political and/or EU view-points.  It’s tempting to think that Westminster will now be wondering what to do with their time but no doubt dreaming up new legislation will be on the New Years resolutions list somewhere.   With that in mind we had a bit...

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