How Protective Clothing Protects Your Business?

As the work wear industry grows, so does the demand for health and safety equipment from ESD Gloves to anti-flame jackets. In some cases you might be required to ask an employee to carry out a task in a dangerous environment where they might be dealing with heat or electricity. For these situations, there are many protective clothing out there that can help your employee carry out their task to the best of their ability instead of worrying about their safety; if the employee feels they're at risk they would not be able to work efficiently. 

Protective Clothing: If your employee is about to work in a very hot environment you would need protective clothing to ensure your employee will be completely safe from skin burns. Anti-flame jackets with Antistatic Racks would be perfect for this scenario. In other cases your employee might be dealing with electricity where the individual would definitely need ESD (electrostatic discharge) safety boots. 

Gloves or Finger Tools: In order to control ESD, one may prevent the build-up of static charge. The use of anti-static and static dissipative materials may eliminate the charge build-up. Antistatic latex ESD Gloves could assist in this aspect. Cloth finger stools are used to protect fingers from injury due to friction for instance, in holding badminton racket. Leather finger stools serve the same function as that of the cloth finger stools. These are small items and available at very low prices, their importance is immensely significant particularly in manufacturing, laboratory and food industries.

Causes of ESD: In electronic industries like manufacture of semi-conductor and Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), the main cause of damage to electronic components is Electrostatic Discharge (ESD). There are two main causes of ESD. 

It is due to static electricity generated by turbocharging whereby two objects are brought together and separated. This will give rise to difference in electrical potential which may cause ESD event. 

The second one is due to electrostatic induction where an electrically charged object, be it conducive or non-conducive, comes into contact or in near contact with a conducive object, for instance a printed circuit board (PCB) isolated from ground. The sudden surge of current may cause ESD event that subsequently damages the PCB.