Working outdoors in Australia can prove to be a challenging, hot and sometimes rather uncomfortable. One way of increasing comfort levels, as well as maintaining sun safety, is encouraging your team to wear long sleeve work shirts. Long sleeve workwear offers versatile protection, both for sun protection during the summer months, and keeping you warm in the cooler winter months. By keeping warm and reducing sun exposure, employees can increase their productivity and in turn, improve the efficiency, effectiveness and success of your company. In this article, Tradey’s Browns Plains discusses the practicalities and benefits of choosing the right outdoor work clothing.
Beating the Chill: Staying Warm and Comfortable in Outdoor Work Clothing
In cold climates, the importance of staying warm cannot be understated. If employees are excessively cold, their productivity levels go down exponentially. With reduced productivity levels, businesses lose out on potential profits and efficiency in the workplace. Insulated plain work shirts are a great way to keep warm in the colder months, especially when working outdoors. Adding thermals underneath or a vest over the top of your cold weather workwear can also increase warmth levels, and hence increase productivity in the workplace.
Sun Safety First: Shielding Yourself From the Elements
Working outdoors in the heat can have serious consequences for your health. Excess sun exposure can result in sunburn, heatstroke, and in the most serious of circumstances, skin cancer. To increase your sun safety, wearing long sleeve outdoor working clothes can help considerably. Long sleeve workwear with UPF protection offers the most effective protection against sun damage possible. To further increase your sun safety, you can also wear hats, apply high quality sunscreen and ensure you are staying sufficiently hydrated throughout the course of the day.
Material Matters: Choosing the Right Fabric
Choosing the right material for your long sleeve cold weather workwear can have a significant effect on comfort levels, which in turn has affects productivity levels. Cotton is generally the lighter fabric material, with means it offers more breathability and generally keeps you cooler. On the other hand, polyester fabric is fast drying, which can be beneficial when working in wet conditions, or if you sweat a lot.
Fit For Purpose: Finding the Perfect Size
Ensuring you are wearing the right size long sleeve work shirts will have a considerable effect on your comfort levels at work, which has a direct effect on productivity levels in the workplace. Work shirts that are too small will prove to be constricting and uncomfortable, while oversized shirts will continually get in the way and cause you to get frustrated on the job. We suggest wearing something that is slightly loose fitting for warmer climates, in order to increase breathability, while wearing something that fits snug, will keep you warm during the winter.
Find out more about our range of custom embroidered and plain work shirts for all weathers by contacting Tradey’s online or calling 07 3809 2211.