What do your employees wear at work? Perhaps you don't give the matter a great deal of thought, but you really should. If your employees are wearing unsuitable clothing while working for you, then they could be injured, leaving you exposed to substantial legal costs. You must be able to demonstrate you have taken steps to ensure their clothing conforms to the relevant safety legislation. Whether an employee is working on your site or working off-site at a customer's business location, they must have appropriate levels of protection and providing them suitable company workwear is the best way to achieve this.
What should your workwear look like?
Your company workwear will vary depending on the nature of your business. If you are considering workwear for health and safety reasons then you will want to think about safety vests, hard hats, protective gloves and footwear and anything else that will help to protect your staff from the particular dangers they face in their working environment.
Take some time to think about the perils that your employees have to deal with each day and consider ways that their clothing could minimise their exposure to danger. What clothing could help them to be seen more easily by other workers? What might they wear that could prevent an accident from occurring? What items of clothing could they wear to minimise any damage if they are struck by a heavy object? Are there any parts of their body that their job places at greater risk than other parts?
Finding the answers to these questions will help to determine the most appropriate workwear for your company. Whether you decide that your employees need boots, gloves, safety vests or a particular type of headgear there is a type of workwear that is perfect for your needs.
Workwear is about more than safety
Developing your corporate workwear policy is a vital step in keeping your employees safe, but it can be much more than that. By investing in workwear featuring your company logo, or in your corporate colours you are taking an important step in developing a brand identity for your employees. Workwear often helps to increase employee cohesion. Wearing workwear everyone looks the same and it becomes obvious that they are all part of the same team. After introducing workwear it is common for relations between employees to improve as they work together towards a common goal.
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