A recent report said Canadian women are not getting the best experience with PPE (personal protective equipment) in the Canadian workplace.The report, published by the Canadian Standards Association, concluded that poorly designed and poorly fitting PPE can have serious negative impacts for women.
Alicia Woods, the CEO and founder of PPE supplier Covergalls, said she was pleased to see the report and said it was about time the issue was more clearly defined. “I launched Covergalls in 2012, right? So that was like a decade ago. It has really been a struggle and a challenge to educate individuals, companies, organizations that there was really a need for this,” said Woods.
The CSA study found that 59 per cent of women in the workplace in Canada use the wrong-sized PPE at least some of the time; that 28 percent of women do not wear all their required PPE because of issues with the fit; and that 38 per cent of women use a “workaround” to make their PPE fit better. Read More
