b'AUSTRALIAN / NEW ZEALAND AUSTRALIAN / NEW ZEALAND SAFETY CLOTHING STANDARDS WORKWEARSAFETY CLOTHING STANDARDSRSEAs extensive range of workwear is designed and selected exclusively for the trades and manufacturing industries, providing comfortable, hard wearing, and easy care workwear. All of our high visibility workwear is certified to Australian Standards, assisting to protect you and your employees from workplace health and safety risks. RSEA also offers options to personalise your workwear by providing embroidery and screen printing services. Adding logos and employee names to workwear ensures that employees are easily identifiable on and off site. Depending on the application, workwear requirements can include reflective taping, high visibility colouring, and sun protection ratings. When selecting workwear for occupational use, the following Australian standards should be reviewed and adhered to as they provide detailed information on the correct workwear for use in high risk workplaces and applications.uAS 4602.1:2011 (incorporating Amendment Nos. 1 & 2) - High Visibility Safety Garments - Part 1: Garments for High Risk Applications.The purpose of Standard AS 4602.1:2011 is to provide minimum requirements for high visibility safety garments for occupational wear by persons in the relevant high risk situations, in which the person/s need to be seen at a distance against a complex visual background, in conditions of poor visibility or where they may appear suddenly in the path of a vehicle or item of moving plant. This standard includes clothing appropriate for daytime wear, night-time wear where they will be seen by retro-reflected light or for wear under both conditions but excludes garments for use by fire services. Garments should be inspected on a regular basis and replaced if they are badly damaged, soiled or faded, or the retroreflective material has ceased to be fit for purpose. In constant use, garments should be critically examined at 3-month to 6-month intervals.uAS/NZS 1906.4:2010 (incorporating Amendment No. 1) - Retro Reflective Materials and Devices for Road Traffic Control Purposes - Part 4:High-Visibility Materials for Safety Garments.The purpose of standard AS/NZS 1906.4:2010 is to set minimum requirements for the manufacture of material utilised in high visibility safety garments, including the material of garments that are intended for use at outdoor day time and retro reflective materials for use at night/dark conditions or in garments that will be worn in conditions where the wearer needs to be highly visible.uAS 4399:2020 - Sun Protective Clothing - Evaluation & Classification.The purpose of this standard is to define the requirements of the rated ultraviolet protection factor of sun protective textiles, clothing and other items of personal apparel which is worn close to the skin, specifying appropriate labelling requirements.In Australia people with unprotected fair skin can receive enough UVR (ultra violet radiation) to cause sunburn in about fifteen minutes. If skin is covered by a garment, the UVR exposure issignificantly reduced.For example, wearing a long sleeve shirt with a UPF rating of 40 will reduce solar UVR exposure to the skin beneath the garment by a factor of 40. This means a UPF 40 fabric will only allow one fortieth of the UVR to pass through it. AS 4399:2020 advises how fabrics are tested and assigned a UPF rating number and protection category; it is dependent upon how much UV radiation they block out. Rating system:UPF RATING UPF CLASSIFICATION % UV RADIATION BLOCKED15 Minimum Protection 93.3%30 Good Protection 96.7%50, 50+ Excellent Protection 98%This UPF rating is for the fabric and does not address the amount of protection which is afforded by the design of the article. The manipulations involved in garment manufacture such as stretching and sewing may lower the UPF of the material.Articles which have been designed to cover the maximum area of the body are recommended. The protection offered by this item may be lessened: 1. At points where the fabric is in close contact with the skin such as across the shoulders; 2. If the fabric is stretched; 3. If the fabric is wet; and 4. With time, due to the effects of normal wear.uAS/NZS 1020:1995 - The Control of Undesirable Static ElectricityThis standard provides recommendations relating to the safe control of electrostatic charges generated incidentally by processes or activities. Its purpose is to assist in reducing fire, explosion and nuisance aspects associated with static electricity.Section 5.2 of the standard outlines selection of clothing to be worn to reduce the generation of static electricity. The following fabrics are listed as suitable a) Cotton, b) Polyester 50% and Cotton 50% blend.Safety Clothing Standards -SAI GlobalCLICK&COLLECTCall 132 100 or shop rsea.com.au FREE Pick-up from our Stores 85'