Working outdoors during winter requires that you’ve protective gear and clothing. If you don’t protect yourself and your workers, you may experience downtime and delays in work as the workers may become ill due to extreme cold out there. Again, workers are happy when they realize that you mind about their well-being and health. Buying thermal wear for your workers not only helps keep them pretty warm when they work in cold environments but also raises their morale. You want to make sure that you choose the right thermal wear to ensure good performance in work sites.

Wearing winter vests and jackets
Warmth during winter months is just as crucial as wearing other protective gear for safety reasons. You can imagine the harm you are doing to your workers who are working in cold without proper protective clothing. While many jackets can offer some warmth and keep out the wind, they can match thermal wear. They can wear vests and jackets and layer up with other clothes, but doing this can reduce the level of mobility. When you’re outdoors working, you want freedom in body movement. You want to ensure that you’ve great mobility both for speed of work and safety reasons.

Layering with jackets and hoodies can also interfere with things like headgear or even compromise the workers’ hearing protection. So, choose worker clothes that can provide multiple layers without restricting movement or making it difficult to use protective gear like headgear.

Layering with thermal wear
If you want to keep warm without being uncomfortable or feeling bulky and having reduced mobility, you can consider wearing thermals as undergarments. You can then wear your regular outdoor clothes on top of the thermal wear. Thermal wear made of an ultrasoft and ultra-lightweight fabric allows you to have undergarments that are comfortable and light enough to ensure easy movement. Thermal underwear sets fit snugly on the body and feel like a layer of skin. You won’t feel being in a load of clothes and you can easily move from one point to another and walk around without restriction of body movement.

Preventing hypothermia
Hypothermia develops after the body is unable to maintain its temperature. The body tries to reduce the loss of heat by shutting down the flow of blood to the skin, legs, and arms and tries to increase heat production by shivering. Hypothermia, even mild one can contribute to poor coordination, confusion, or irrational behavior as well as mental impairment. These can impact the ability of the workers to perform their tasks to adequate and safe standards. So, you want to ensure the workers are in thermal wear to deal with the cold weather and prevent hypothermia.

You may want to choose Bodtek’s thermals for outdoor workers to protect them from cold. These thermals are engineered using advanced technologies such as moisture-wicking and heat retention. They feel very soft on the skin and won’t cause irritation or bruises on the skin. Bodtek thermal wear is also designed to prevent bad odor and easily stretches out without deforming.