End-of-Year Safety Deals You Don’t Want to Miss
Bundle, Save, and Stock Up Before This PPE is Gone As the year winds down, one thing stays the same: keeping your team safe is non-negotiable. But rising costs, tight...
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Honeywell BW Gas Detection: Icon Series Spotlight
PK Safety carries BW gas detectors because they’re well-made and trustworthy, but also aim to improve and innovate. We’re excited to carry the latest in their gas detection devices: the...
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How to Wear Facial-Hair-Friendly Respirators
Facial hair is just a part of life, but it shouldn’t be a safety hazard. Employers need to make sure their workers have access to reliable OSHA-approved respirators for beards...
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Selecting a Hazmat Suit
Jobs that require a lot of contaminated area cleanup—like asbestos and lead removal—require hazmat suits. Hazmat suits are overall garments that protect workers from chemicals, biological agents, radioactivity, and other...
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How to Pick the Best Safety Gloves for Your Job
Hands are a valuable tool in nearly all workplaces, and proper safety gloves are an important piece of PPE on worksites where there are on-the-job hazards that put workers’ hands...
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3M Scholarship & Trade In Trade Up Programs
PK Safety has been carrying top safety supply equipment and brands for years. We’re especially proud of our 3M Fall Protection and other PPE: 3M’s mission to develop new and...
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Understanding what P100 Means for Respirator Filters
Respirator filters are rated according to how much particulate matter they can reliably block and what environments they’re best suited for. This is why you’ll see respirators and filters with...
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How to Select Cut-Resistant Safety Gloves
There’s a lot to consider when shopping for cut resistant gloves, but most importantly, they should protect your hands from cuts, scrapes, and other sharp hazards. To help you narrow...
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How to Fit and Adjust a Fall Arrest Harness
Nothing could be more important than having the right fall protection equipment when working high up off the ground. Your employees need to know that they will be safe if...
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What Kind of Ventilation is Needed for a Confined Space?
Confined space entry comes with plenty of risks. Basements, storage areas, attics, crawl spaces, sewers, tunnels, and other confined spaces reduce the flow of oxygen, which makes it hard to...
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How to Clean Your Gas Monitors
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, workplaces are cleaning more thoroughly and frequently. If you’re in an industry that uses gas detection equipment, keeping your gas monitors clean is more important...
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How to Select the Best Kevlar Gloves
Developed by DuPont in 1965, yarns made from Kevlar remain a very popular component in manufacturing protective safety gloves. Kevlar combines light weight with high tensile strength, along with heat...
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How is Fall Clearance Calculated
To prevent a worker on one level from falling and striking another level or obstruction below, the fall clearance needs to be determined. This is the minimum distance needed between...
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How to Prevent Suspension Trauma
Suspension trauma is often overlooked in the workplace. Employers may be focused on protecting their workers from fall-related injuries but leaving them suspended in the air can also be a...
