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Protective clothing is clothing designed to protect either the wearer's body or other items of clothing from hazards such as heat, chemicals and infection. Special clothes may also protect the working environment from pollution or infection from the worker, as in a microchip factory, and the protection may be important in both directions, as with the disposable gloves used by surgeons and dentists. Protective clothing and other protective equipment are often referred to as personal protective equipment, or PPE, a term that also covers equipment that is not strictly clothing, such as eye and ear protection. Common protective materials include Nomex and Kevlar.
Protective clothing is clothing designed to protect either the wearer's body or other items of clothing from hazards such as heat, chemicals and infection. Also, special clothes may protect the working environment from pollution and/or infection from the worker, for example in a microchip factory. The protection may also be important in both ways, as with the use of disposable gloves by surgeons and dentists.
Protective clothing is also worn for contact sports, such as ice hockey and American football. Baseball players wear sliding shorts and a cup under their pants. See baseball uniform, hockey mask, jockstrap.
Protective clothing and other protective equipment are often referred to as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), a term which includes forms of protective equipment which are not strictly items of clothing (for example, eye and ear protection).
Protective clothing extends to body armor such as bullet-proof vests, historical armor and futuristic powered armor. In UK legislation the term PPE does not cover such items as armour.
Common protective materials include Nomex, Kevlar.
Examples of protective clothing/personal protective equipment
Hand protection
Gloves to protect from contamination and infection (e.g. disposable latex/vinyl/nitrile gloves)
Gloves to protect from extremes of temperature (e.g. oven gloves, welder's gloves)
Gloves to protect from mechanical hazards (e.g. rigger gloves, chainmail gloves)
Hearing protection
ear defenders
earplugs
Eye protection
Respiratory protection
filter mask
Particulate respirator (N95)
gas mask
PAPR Powered Air Purifying Respirator
Self Contained Breathing Apparatus
Protective headgear
motorcycle helmet
mask - specifically ones made of hard material like those used by Goalies in ice hockey (a goalie mask) and catchers in baseball as protection against being struck in the face by flying objects.
Protective footwear
Other PPE
fall arrest equipment
high-visibility clothing (to ensure visibility to prevent accidents)
apron protects the body and other clothing from dirt (also used as distinction by waiters)
diaper (nappy in British English)
Fire protection suit
chainsaw protection (especially a helmet with face guard, hearing protection, kevlar chaps, anti-vibration gloves, and safety boots)
bee keepers wear various levels of protection depending on the temperament of their bees and the reaction of the bees to nectar availability. At minimum most bee keepers wear a brimmed hat and a veil made of hardware cloth similar to window screen material. The next level of protection is offered by leather gloves with long gauntlets and by some way of keeping bees from crawling up one's trouser legs. In extreme cases, shirts and trousers are also fabricated to serve as barriers to the bees' stingers.
chaps are individual pant leggings made of leather and worn by farriers, cowboys, and rodeo contestants to protect the legs from contact with hooves, thorny undergrowth, and other such work hazards. May also be made of other materials for leg protection against other hazards, such as "rain chaps" of waterproof materials, or "saw chaps" of Kevlar for chainsaw workers.
Most forms of industrial clothing are protective clothing.
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Protective clothing is specified backwards, from the hazard to the garment, and the categories follow the body part and the risk together. Hands take the widest glove range, disposable latex, vinyl and nitrile gloves against contamination and infection, oven and welder's gloves against heat, rigger and chainmail gloves against mechanical hazards. Head, eye and ear protection, helmets and hard hats, goggles and visors, ear defenders and plugs, are classed as PPE alongside clothing. Respiratory protection runs from filter masks and particulate respirators to gas masks and powered air purifying respirators. Feet are protected by steel-toe boots and specialist clogs, visibility by high-visibility clothing that prevents accidents by making the wearer seen, and the whole body by aprons, chaps, chainsaw protection in Kevlar, fire protection suits, lifejackets and, at the extreme, spacesuits and body armour such as bullet-proof vests.
Two working rules govern all of it. The first is that protective clothing is chosen and checked for the specific standard of the workplace and task, since a glove, respirator or suit protects only against the hazards it was tested for, so current workplace safety requirements and the maker's instructions should always be checked before relying on any item. The second is inspection and care: protective garments are cleaned, stored and replaced on schedule, damaged or contaminated items are withdrawn rather than worn on, and disposable items such as examination gloves are used once and discarded. Sports protection follows the same logic at lower stakes, the hockey mask, sliding shorts and protective cup of team games being PPE in everything but the workplace name. The materials mark the progress of the field, Nomex for flame resistance, Kevlar for cut and ballistic strength, each fibre developed for a hazard cloth alone could not answer.
Protective clothing is clothing designed to protect the wearer's body, or other items of clothing, from hazards such as heat, chemicals and infection. It ranges from gloves, helmets and steel-toe boots to fire protection suits, lifejackets and high-visibility clothing.
PPE stands for personal protective equipment. The term covers protective clothing and other protective equipment used together against a hazard, including forms that are not strictly clothing, such as eye protection, ear defenders, respirators and fall arrest equipment.
Yes. Protection can run in both directions at once: disposable gloves worn by surgeons and dentists protect the wearer and the patient, and cleanroom clothing in a microchip factory protects the product and working environment from pollution and infection carried by the worker.