DuPont Tyvek 500 Anti Slip Protective Shoe Covers (Pack of 200)
When you're wearing protective shoe covers, you need options that are comfortable and keep you safe. The DuPont Tyvek 500 Anti Slip Protective Shoe Covers (Pack of 200) ensure maximum hygiene no matter where you're working, due to their anti-slip soles and antistatic treated materials. Made of lightweight material for comfortable use all day long, these overshoes offer convenience for any place of work.
What's Included?
Sizing
Featuring elasticated ankles and coming in a large size to suit the majority of wearers, these overshoes are the best way to fit the majority of employees for safety and hygiene in a wide range of environments needing enhanced hygiene. The one-size-fits-most design is suitable for EU size 36 - 42 shoes (size 3 to size 8), making these overshoes perfect for visitors to your site, as they can accommodate a wide variety of different people without having to worry about size and fit.
Technical Specifications
- Product Type Specs: Overshoe
- Material: PE (Polyethylene)
- Seam Type: Stitched
- Certifications/Compliance: EN1149-5
- Size: 36 - 42
- Colour: White
- Includes: Slip-retardant sole
Certifications
These overshoes come with certifications EN1149-5, which is the European Standard for garments protecting against electrostatic discharge in areas where there is a risk of sudden explosion (also known as ATEX Environments). This includes petrochemical refineries and fuel distribution companies, making these shoe covers safe in a number of different industries.
Key Features and Benefits
- Disposable design is the best way to guarantee maximum hygiene
- Disposability also ensures complete protection for shoes and footwear
- Protects against light liquid splashes and hazardous dusts
- Can be used in a wide variety of different environments for versatility
- Slip-retardant soles guarantee maximum safety while at work
- Polyethylene design has a number of powerful benefits
- Elasticated ankles allow for a comfortable fit around the wearer's feet
- Compliance with EN1149-5 means they are suitable in various working conditions
Which Environments Need Shoe Covers?
A number of different industries require shoe coverings, including:
- Healthcare, such as in surgery or on hospital floors to prevent contamination
- Pharmaceutical industries for safety of employees and visitors
- Petrochemical refineries and fuel redistribution companies
- Food and beverage for prevention of slips, falls and contamination
- Contractors and building sites, to keep clients happy when walking around the house
- By forensics and policemen to avoid cross-contamination in crime scenes
- In cleanrooms and other environments requiring complete sterility
How Can These Overshoes Be Used in Cleanrooms?
Cleanrooms require the maximum amount of hygiene possible - making sterility and sterile clothing paramount. These shoe covers can therefore help maintain these environments by:
- Slip-retardant soles enhance grip to eliminate risk of slipping, compromising sterility
- High length up to the calf locks in germs (when used with coveralls, available here)
- Antistatic treatment for comfort all day long, keeping employees safe
How Are Overshoes Used in Medical Environments?
- To protect healthcare workers from contamination through bodily fluids
- To keep professionals safe through prevention of harmful microorganisms
- To protect patients from further illness or contamination
Why Are Shoe Covers Needed in Pharmaceutical Industries?
- Help to keep pharmacists safe when handling hazardous chemicals
- Prevents spreading illness, often to immunocompromised patients
- Prevents general spreading of germs
How Can Overshoes Be Used in Food and Beverage Industries?
- Prevents slips following spillages and leaks
- Stops shoes and clothing from staining
- Stops contamination and spreading of germs
How Do Overshoes Help in Construction?
- prevent muddy and dirty shoes from ruining new flooring
- Eliminate germs from entering homes
- Prevent contamination from spreading across the work site
Why Are Shoe Covers Important?
Shoe covers play an essential role in PPE, since they:
- Protect sterile, or very clean environments
- Protect shoes from bodily fluids and chemicals
- They stop bacterial spreading and contamination
- They reduce the likelihood of trips and falls
Why Should I Wear Shoe Covers?
Now that we understand who needs shoe covers, it's important to determine why they are needed more generally. Reasons for this are:
- Shoe covers act as a barrier against organisms and contaminants
- They protect workers, patients and those they affect
- They create a clean, sterile environment
- They improve efficiency (since no time is wasted cleaning shoes)
- They keep shoes clean!
Materials
These overshoes are made entirely out of polypethylene and Tyvek. The former has various benefits including:
- Strong and sturdy, resisting any tears or rips which compromise hygiene
- Moisture resistant, ideal for stepping on liquids and substances
- Good chemical resistance for use with acidic or alkaline substances
- Fatigue resistant in the case of scratching on uneven floor surfaces
What is Tyvek?
DuPont Tyvek is a unique nonwoven material only from DuPont. Tyvek is made of 100% high density polyethylene fibres randomly laid and compressed to form a remarkably tough printing substrate that is ideal for applications where durability and tear resistance is of prime importance. Tyvek can resist repeated folding and flexing without tearing, and can also be glued, laminated, sewn, stapled and fixed.
What Are the Benefits of Tyvek?
Tyvek combines the performance of paper, film and fabric and thus makes it ideal for a wide range of applications, meaning it also has a number of unique benefits when being used as a material for protective clothing:
- Breathability, since it allows water vapour to escape (keeping you cool all day long)
- Water resistance since it sheds rain, snow and pills
- Tear resistance, since it resists punctures, tears and abrasion
- Light-weighted material keeps clothing non-bulky for comfortable wear
- Paper-like material looks as light as a feather but is considerably stronger
- Eco-friendly design is fully recyclable and made out of HDPE
Check out our other DuPont Tyvek clothing here.
What Other Options Are Available?
We have a huge range of overshoes and shoe covers to suit your needs. To see these options, check them out below:
Technical Specifications
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