Safety Workwear

Dickies Store UK operated by Quo Vadis Limited are a distributor for Dickies and therefore also including the Redhawk workwear brand as well as clothing for DiBianco and Grafters workwear not forgetting the Makita workwear range also as made by Dickies here in the UK.

Dickies were originally an American company based in Fort Worth, Texas. In operation for well over eighty years, Dickies manufacture only the highest quality professional garments and protective safety workwear. They also manufacture various accessories and additions to personal protective equipment.

Dickies Store UK clothing is generally purchased by ‘blue-collar’ workers who find it durable, functional and comfortable. Recognised worldwide for their quality, Dickies continues to grow within and through their sector, the range expanding and changing every year. Provision is also made for shoes, bags, school uniform clothing, slacks, trousers, jackets, hard hats, packs, overalls and much more.

Although traditionally worn by ‘blue-collar’ workers, some Dickies items have begun to show up in ‘white-collar’ cupboards. Urban-dwelling individuals like skateboarders, hip-hop heads and graffiti artists seem to have adopted Dickies as trendy wear. Dickies Store UK workwear clothing has been supplied to skaters, lowriders, taggers and Chicano “cholo” gangs in Milton Keynes.

This interesting transformation within the Dickies brand arises for a few reasons, one of which maybe the similarity of their overalls to prison outfits (not that this is much of a defining reason, as many more companies produce near-identical dungarees and overalls). There is a common association between the cholos and lowriders, that the Dickies pants have a straight leg style, and a similarity to dress pants. Since style and neatness have always been imperative to Chicano gang members, Dickies was the obvious choice being of the highest quality and durable safety workwear.

Dickies original pants were called Khakis and were starched throughout the sixties and seventies, eventually reaching the eighties where, like everything else to reach the eighties, they were cut at the knee to create a new brand of skater and surfer shorts, launching yet another unique style of dress on the streets of America. These styles have now been emulated and re-released with stronger and more durable materials, slightly more fashionable cuts and in more colours (not just Khaki shades).

Protective clothing is designed to protect the wearer’s body from harmful effects of the working environment, and sometimes to protect the working environment from the harmful effects of the wearer’s body. Heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, pollution, germs and accidents are rife in industrial work areas and many other types of business. One needs specialised safety workwear to protect oneself from the different hazards of the workplace. Sometimes, like in a microchip production facility, one needs protective clothing to protect the environment from human hairs, dirt particles, dead skin cells, carbon dioxide emissions (from breathing), and so on. The safety workwear could even work both ways, as with a pair of doctor's or dentist's disposable latex hand gloves.

Safety clothes may even be worn for contact or violent sports: wrestling, ice hockey, American Football, rugby, baseball, cricket and rock climbing are a few of the sports one would require personal protective equipment to enjoy safely.

In case you were wondering why we keep mentioning Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), we will explain the meaning. Protective clothing and equipment is often referred to as personal protective equipment, especially when a kit or outfit includes items of protection that are not strictly clothing such as goggles and gloves. Personal protection equipment even includes body armour and pullet-proof vests, even historical knights and horses armour falls into this definition. Soon, we will be referring to body suits and mechanical exoskeletons as personal protective equipment as this will be the new wave of safety workwear. Commonly used in the creation of protective clothing are the materials Nomex and Kevlar.

Hand protective gear can include gloves, nitrile gloves, disposable latex gloves, disposable vinyl gloves, disposable nitrile gloves, over gloves, welder’s gloves, carpenter’s gloves, rigger gloves, chain mail gauntlets and sporting gloves (such as cricket wicket-keeper’s gloves).

Ear protective wear includes ear defenders and earplugs. Eye protection includes goggles, sunglasses, visors and welding goggles. Additionally filter masks, particulate respirators, gas masks, powered air purifying respirators and scuba gear fall into the classification of safety workwear as respiratory protective equipment.

Dickies Store UK even offers protective headwear like hard hats, helmets and masks; and footwear like boots, shoes and steel-toe footwear. Dickies Store UK is proud to offer even Hi Vis (high visibility), hospitality outfits, fire-protective gear, chainsaw protective gear and hundreds of other protective safety workwear products to be used in an industrial setting.

Safety workwear is vital to the health and safety of your company or organisation. Most insurance companies and health and safety regulations require that your team be protected throughout their working day, to the fullest extent. You are often required to provide protective equipment such as boiler suits, hard hats, jackets, trousers, coats and overalls in order to meet specifications. These compulsory protective items can be branded by Dickies Store UK to promote your company image; in other words, we will embroider your logo and or slogan onto the equipment as well as offering you the opportunity to choose the colours.

Remembering that Hi Vis clothing gets used in many sectors of industry including: road works, sailing, on building sites and in many council projects, Dickies Store UK would like to offer you the opportunity to purchase aprons, high visibility sleeves, waterproof and rain wear, and much more from our online store located at www.DickiesStore.co.uk

Relevant classifications for Personal protective Equipment:

EN352 – is the minimum requirement under current European legislation for ear defenders and ear plugs.

EN166 – represents the minimum requirement for safety goggles and spectacles as laid down by European directives.

EN388 – is the classification for gloves designed to protect the hands against mechanical risks

EN407 – Protective gloves against thermal hazards (heat and/or fire)

EN511 – Protective gloves against cold

EN374 – Protective gloves against chemicals and micro-organisms

EN12477 – is the standard for protective gauntlets for welders

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