Stab Vests & Innovative Knife Protection
Stab vests are designed to provide excellent knife protection and a functional solution to individuals who have recognised operational risks and therefore require extra protection in their chosen vocation.
All PPSS (formerly ASEO) stab vests offer UK's Home Office (HOSDB) knife protection, as well as unrivalled protection from blunt trauma caused by a punch, blow or kick. Based on our professional frontline experience and extensive research we can only stress that an impact based assault is a more likely event than an attack involving an edged weapon or firearm.
Why providing frontline staff with stab vests and knife protection?
Well, we genuinely believe in every frontline professional's right to be safe and protected. So the moral obligation to provide protection is the one that means most to us here at PPSS.
However, the recently introduced Corporate Manslaughter & Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and an ever so noticeable increase in lack of respect, have also lead many of our customers within the public and private sector around the World to look at the potential use of stab resistant vests and other types of knife protection.
Additional reasons include the cost of facing potential legal action, the cost of injured employees taking time off and the bad publicity an incident would create, all of which would outweigh the one-off cost of PPE, knife protection and stab vests.
Key risk areas enhancing the need for stab vests and knife protection:
- Dealing with certain high risk individuals, such as potentially violent or aggressive members of the public, drug users or dealers.
- Operating in certain geographical areas or trouble spots, such as poor or run down council.
- Dealing with frustrated and disappointed customers (e.g. customers unhappy with the service your organisation has provided)
- Visiting people in their home or office to enforce laws and regulations, police the system or having to give bad news.
- Securing and protecting property, events and people.
- Working late at night could increase the operational risk and the need for stab vests.
The most common argument against stab vests and knife protective equipment:
We at PPSS fully understand that 'Perception' is without a doubt one of the most important factors within personal safety, and we agree with the fact that overt stab vests or other form of knife protective equipment can often be perceived as confrontational and authoritive. Frontline employees dealing with the public should be doing their utmost to express themselves as peaceful ambassadors within their line of work. 'Covert' stab vests allow them to do exactly that, whilst still being protected.
Our crucial argument in favour of stab vests and knife protective equipment:
Recommending stab vests or other kind of knife protective equipment can increase your operational risk and often does not mean we suggest your operational risk is extremely high. However, it's a matter of fact that you will have a higher chance of remaining unharmed in the unlikely, but possible, case of something going wrong. Wearing stab vests can be compared to wearing a seat belt when driving a car. We do not put the seat belt on because we believe we are going to have an accident today. We are simply acknowledging the fact that there is a remarkably small chance that we might crash. Yet, if this chance becomes reality, you have have reduced the risk of injury and increased the chance of survival by wearing a seat belt.
Have you any further questions in reference to stab vests or knife protection? Then please call us now on +44 (0) 845 5193 953 or email info@ppss-group.com
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