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HUSQVARNA GROUP – A LEADING MANUFACTURER IN OUTDOOR POWER TOOLS AND SOLUTIONS FOR FOREST, PARK AND GARDEN CARE – SHARES ITS GUIDE ON CARING FOR PPE DURING THE WINTER MONTHS
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eing an arborist means you’re productive all day. Therefore, it’s evident that your protective clothing will get worn and dirty; however, it’s important to keep your clothes clean and safe to wear, especially when they’re regularly exposed to sweat and oil. To ensure the safety of yourself and your PPE, follow Husqvarna’s top tips on PPE maintenance, including washing, repairing, and choosing the right materials for your line of work. Keeping your protective clothing clean and safe results in optimum protection, and also ensures their functionality. The chainsaw protective layer in chainsaw trousers and boots works by releasing long strands of fibre to halt the chain fro t rning f these fibres are dirty from mud or tree sap, then the protective qualities can be reduced, and frequent washing can revent the rotective fibres becoming clogged. On the move To get to your workplace, you often have to tackle any number of obstacles. You climb, you jump, you stretch and twist as you make your way through brushwood and water, over rocks and slopes. That’s why your protective wear needs to provide you with more than just safety. It needs to follow your every move. It needs to be as light
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Keeping your protective clothing clean and safe results in optimum protection, and also ensures their functionality as possible, adjust to the cold, the heat and your own body temperature. And it needs to be comfortable, whatever you’re doing — and wherever you’re going. To the user, comfort is in large parts a feeling. The materials used in Husqvarna protective clothes have all been either developed or hand-picked by our experts and then put through many tests in the lab and in the forest to make sure they make the cut. It’s also important to note that cut-retardant
apparel and materials are subject to a certain degree of ageing. In professional logging, for example, the maximum period of usage is considered to be about 12 months. In nonrofessional or occasional se, to five years is considered acceptable. Right for the job ach ob co es with di erent re ire ents and Husqvarna’s range of protective clothing takes into consideration every type of work,
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