Using Protective Clothing At Work
A lot of people think that OSHA clothing is silly. They don’t consider that it saves lives. The ironic thing is that newbies are much more likely to wear protective clothes than their more experienced coworkers. Although they are more at risk of accidents than experienced workers, these newcomers are actually less at risk for fatalities or serious injuries because of the protective clothing that they wear!
Once workers get more experience at their jobs, they tend to remove the protective clothes because either they are uncomfortable, or because it is seen as excessive. Sometimes it is just a matter of macho attitude, the desire to show off by taking risks. Either way, without the right protective clothing you can easily become a victim of what could otherwise be a harmless mistake.
It is baffling how many places I have seen people leave off protective clothing. Some of the most highly educated professionals I know leave off lab clothes when going into a chemical laboratory. I have seen chemists working with highly dangerous chemicals while refusing to even wear gloves! They will wear some of the most necessary protective clothing such as chemical masks, but when it comes to gloves they will trust in their own dexterity to stop something potentially fatal from spilling on their hands.
This is idiocy as far as I am concerned. Protective clothing is not that expensive, and furthermore it is often supplied by the workplace. Even if clothing protection were only to work in 5% of cases, there would still be a 5% lower risk of accidental death. It seems worth a little discomfort to me!
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