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Client testimonials

" I have used Slingsby for the last 10 years and they haven’t let me down once. Most items I have requested have been with me either next day or the day after. They always try and fulfil my needs as a customer. " Dairy Crest

Safety & Security

About Safety & Security

When it comes to keeping your workers and your premises safe, there's no room for compromise.

So turn to Slingsby to find all the products you need to ensure that your business stays on the right side of the law, and safeguards its most important assets.

Order hotline: 0800 294 4440

From having the right training and risk assessment equipment to help all new employees, through practical day-to-day items such as fire safety and traffic management equipment, door and key security systems, padlocks and seals, safes, site security essentials, safety barriers, to first aid and medical room supplies, we've got all your needs covered.

We have been making it our business to supply other businesses with all they need to get on with the job for well over a century. And as business needs have evolved, so have we, introducing such important and valuable benefits as free next-day delivery on many of our 35,000-plus products, and a no-quibble guarantee and minimum 12-month warranty on everything we make and sell.

You take safety seriously, so you'll be pleased to hear that we do too. Our product range is designed to ensure that you won't have to go anywhere else to find everything you need to eliminate any worries about your security and that of your staff.

With Slingsby's 140-plus years of experience of supplying workplace needs behind you, when you come to us your business is in safe hands.

Legislation

Safety & Security

According to the Personal Protective Equipment regulations at Work 1992 employers have basic duties to supply and use personal protective equipment (PPE) at work wherever there are risks to health and safety that cannot be adequately controlled in other ways. PPE can be classes as all "equipment which is intended to be worn or held by a person at work and which protects him against one or more risks to his health or safety"

Order hotline: 0800 294 4440

The hazards and types of PPE available:

Eyes:
Hazards: chemical or metal splash, dust, projectiles, gas and vapour, radiation.
Options: safety spectacles, goggles, faceshields, visors.

Head:
Hazards: impact from falling or flying objects, risk of head bumping, hair entanglement.
Options: a range of helmets and bump caps.

Breathing:
Hazards: dust, vapour, gas.
Options: disposable dust masks, half- or full-face respirators,

Protecting the body:
Hazards: temperature extremes, adverse weather, chemical or metal splash, spray from pressure eaks or spray guns, impact or penetration, contaminated dust, excessive wear or entanglement of own clothing.
Options: conventional or disposable overalls, boiler suits, specialist protective clothing, e.g. chain-mail aprons, high-visibility clothing, fire retardant boilersuits.

Hands and arms:
Hazards: abrasion, temperature extremes, cuts and punctures, impact, chemicals, electric shock, skin infection, disease or contamination.
Options: gloves, gauntlets

Feet and legs
Hazards: wet, electrostatic build-up, slipping, cuts and punctures, falling objects, metal and chemical splash, abrasion.
Otions: safety boots and shoe with protective toe caps and penetration-resistant mid-sole, knee caps.

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