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Workwear - What is Heat Stress

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Workwear - What is Heat Stress

The term heat stress refers to the body suffering adverse side effects from not being able to cool itself enough to maintain a healthy temperature.

Heat stress is the single biggest problem affecting our customers at work. Heat stress is not only uncomfortable but can result in serious injury or even death in extreme cases. Under the workplace health and safety act 2011 (AS) it is the legal obligation of employers to put plans in place to mitigate the heat stress risk.

Traditional cool work wear has used lightweight cotton drill to help provide a heat stress solution. The issue with this solution is that the base garments and fabric are essentially the same as traditional workwear so there is only minimal additional cooling achieved. The other major limitation of traditional cool workwear options is the loss in strength and durability from using a lighter weight fabric.

SYZMIK SOLUTION
Syzmiks new Rugged range of works shirts and pants changes the way cool workwear is developed. When we started to look for a better solution to heat stress we first had to understand the way the body cools itself which is primarily through the evaporation of sweat. So to aid the body in cooling, we set out to create a fabric that would increase breathability to not only keep the wearer cooler but also allow the body's sweat to evaporate and dry quicker. The fabric we use is a 100% cotton that is produced in a square weave construction, the construction is a more open weave that allows the maximum amount of air to pass through the fabric.

Then in our garment construction we added features like extensive mesh venting and vented tape to increase the breathability of our range even further. We then set out to make our fabric more durable and developed a ripstop construction in the fabric which uses thick reinforcing thread through out to make the fabric stronger while not limiting the breathability.

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