| Knife Resistant Clothing - An End to Injury at | | | | strongest man-made fibres that is pound for |
| Work? | | | | pound 15 times stronger than steel and 40% |
| | | | | stronger than DuPont’s Kevlar. |
| Occupational health & safety professionals | | | | Spectra® garments also have the great |
| and many frontline operations managers will | | | | advantage of being concealable. This gives the |
| agree when I say that dealing directly with the | | | | advantage that frontline staff do not appear |
| public is becoming a moreand more dangerous | | | | overly confrontational, aggressive or authoritative. |
| and risky thing to do. | | | | I cannot emphasise enough how important this is. |
| Assaults and knife attacks on emergency | | | | Especially when dealing with intoxicated individuals |
| services personnel, nurses, social and health care | | | | under the influence of drugs or alcohol. |
| workers, taxi and truck drivers are increasingly | | | | I have personally noted a growing need for knife |
| common. When it comes to knife crime, it is | | | | and cut resistant clothing because many frontline |
| surprisingly difficult to quantify that danger. In | | | | operatives have recently indicated that they feel |
| terms of fatal stabbings, the Conservative Party | | | | unsafe during their work. Teachers, social and |
| in he UK have issued figures at the end of 2008 | | | | health care workers, taxi drivers, fraud |
| claiming that there were more than five fatal | | | | investigators, BT and British Gas employees and |
| stabbings each week, yet the government | | | | many others have expressed the fear they feel |
| disputed this, asserting that knives were not the | | | | when dealing with intoxicated, disrespectful or |
| only weapons used. | | | | hostile individuals. For these frontline staff stab |
| As a well respected security expert and personal | | | | vests are too confrontational, heavy or |
| safety consultant I have long advised key decision | | | | inappropriate. Our Knife & Slash Resistant |
| makers within the public sector and health care | | | | Clothing will offer them excellent protection from |
| departments that the risk of violent incidents can | | | | slashing - and that is better than no protection at |
| be reduced through a combination of body | | | | all. |
| language, effective training, calming behaviour and | | | | Spectra® lined high visibility vests, as well as |
| reducing the | | | | Spectra® lined gloves are our most recent |
| We at ASEO have spent a lot of time thinking | | | | addition to our vastly growing range of PPE, ideal |
| about this so very important issue and | | | | for use by stewards involved in crowd control, |
| subsequently launched a range of discreet | | | | the emergency services and those who handle |
| protective clothing to tackle this problem. Our | | | | sharp objects like broken glass, such as refuse |
| range features knife, slash and bite resistant | | | | collectors, glass collectors, janitors and medical |
| clothing including both short and long sleeved | | | | staff. |
| T-shirts, high visibility vests, sleeves, gloves and | | | | Robert Kaiser, CEO |
| other garments. All garments are manufactured | | | | ASEO visual staff must be protected. |
| using a material called Spectra®, one of the | | | | |