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19--Personal Protective Equipment a medium or low heeled shoe Safety shoes are also available in women's styles and thenuse should be encouraged where sharp or heavy ob)ects are handled or where there is other danger of injury to the worker's toes Rings, bracelets, and earrings commonly cause accidents Many companies require that no jewelry or ornaments be worn on or near jobs involving moving machinery Rules on the use of protective equipment, such as eye protective devices, face shields, and respiratory protective equipment, such as discussed previously in this chapter, should apply to women as well as to men. Cold weather clothing In recent years thermal insulating under wear has become popular among outdoor workers because of its lightweight protection from the cold Two types are generally avail able One is a thermal knit cotton (Fig 19-55) patterned after regular underwear The other consists of quilted materials (Fig 19-50) Dacron quilted between nylon is a common type of construction While this matenal does not catch fire any easier than cotton, once it starts burning, the nylon and Dacron melt, forming a hot plastic mass, not unlike hot pitch, which will adhere to skin and cause senous burns Quilted in sulating underwear is now available that has been made fire retardant to combat this danger A nylon matenal (called "Nomex"), that chars at a relatively high temperature and does not melt, is available Class fiber ma tenal is also available for special uses (Fig 19-49) Special clothing Safety experts have been very ingenious in developing many highly specialized types of clothing for protection against special hazards A partial list includes such items as High visibility and night hazard clothing for construction, utility, maintenance workers, police and firemen whose work expose them to traffic hazards. Disposable clothing made of plastic (Fig 19-51) or reinforced paper is available for exposure to low level nuclear radiation, or for use m the drug and electronic industries where contamination may be a problem. Leaded clothing of lead glass fiber cloth, leaded rubber or leaded plastic for laboratory workers and other personnel exposed to X rays or gamma radiation Electromagnetic radiarion suit, which pro vides protection from the harmful biological effects of electromagnetic radiation found in high level radar fields and similar hazardous areas Conductive clothing, made of a conductive cloth, is available for use by linemen doing bare-hand work on extra-high voltage con ductors Such clothing keeps the worker at the proper potential For special applications, manufacturers have a vast number of materials they can draw upon to meet specific hazards Acknowledgment The following companies and sources co operated in furnishing illustrations of personal protective equipment for use m this chapter Acme Protective Equipment Co American Industrial Hygiene Assn American Optical Co Armco Steel Corp Bausch & Lomb, Inc E D Bullard Co Caterpillar Tractor Co Chicago Eyeshield Co David Clark Co Detroit, Mich , Division of Instruction E I du Pont de Nemours and Co , Inc Eastern Safety Equipment Co , Inc EUwood Safety Appliance Co Encon Manufacturing Co Factory Stores Ford Motor Co Humble Oil & Refining Co International Shoe Co Jackson Products Co Kennedy Ingalls, Inc Midwest Glove Co Mine Safety Appliance Co NASA, Mississippi Test Facility Owens-Coming Fiberglas Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc Redwing Shoe Co 526