How to choose your work pants?

Essential and indispensable, the work pants accompany you throughout your days. A true ally for professionals, pants are a key piece of work clothing and their choice is not made by chance. Several criteria must be taken into account to properly choose your work pants.

Summary:

• Security

• Practical

• Size

• Comfort

• Resistant

• Design

Choosing your work pants is not necessarily very simple. Indeed, they must be able to protect you during your activities. To do this, your pants must protect you from the risks incurred while meeting the safety standards imposed in your work environment.

To guide you in choosing your protective pants, here is a summary of standards relating to work pants:

• The EN 340 standard, related to general requirements
• The EN 342 standard, ensuring protection against cold
• The EN 343 standard, aimed at protecting from weather 
• The EN 471 standard, allowing high visibility
• The EN 11612 standard for fire protection
• Standards 13034 and 14605 for chemical protection
• The EN 381-5 standard for protective clothing for chainsaw users
• The EN 1149 standard corresponding to antistatic clothing

Do you work in a job that requires the use of several tools? Choose multi-pocket work pants! You can find many models that will allow you to have your hands free when you work. This type of equipment with numerous pockets is very practical for keeping the tools you use daily within reach:

• Back pockets
• Side pockets with zip or velcro
• Pen pockets
• Italian pockets
• Cargo pockets
• Removable pockets
• Belt straps
• Dedicated tape measure location

Now, with these pants with multiple pockets, no more loss of productivity, no more unnecessary movement and stay focused on the tasks you perform.

If you want to know more about this type of work pants, we have dedicated a blog article to the Trident range from the Bosseur brand.

Work pants can also be equipped with a completely different type of pocket. They don't allow storage, but are almost indispensable in certain trades: these are knee pad pockets. They allow people working on their knees to protect themselves from musculoskeletal disorders. In addition, knee pads can be removed if you don't need them. 

To properly choose your work pants, it is advisable to refer to the size guides that are specific to each brand. Depending on manufacturers and countries of design, sizes can vary. The best way to avoid mistakes is to take your measurements.

The size of your pants will directly impact the comfort felt when wearing them. This is why it is an aspect not to be neglected. Work clothing that is too big or too small risks losing its ergonomic properties and no longer fully meeting your needs.

You must therefore be careful that the size of your pants is adapted and why not opt for a model offering adjustable elastics for better support.

The perfect work garment must be comfortable. You will be required to wear it daily, which is why it is preferable to choose pants in which you will be comfortable all day long.

To return to the importance of the size chosen, if you want work pants to provide you with optimal comfort, it must be adapted (neither too tight, nor too loose). If work clothing, as well as PPE worn daily, allows this comfort to be achieved, the worker will have much more interest in obtaining them.

Comfortable work pants are not just pants in the right size. Indeed, this plays a crucial role, but other aspects such as the cut, the pockets (discussed previously), the length of the legs or even a raised back belt play a predominant role.

Another aspect and not the least important for bringing comfort to the wearer of work pants remains the material. Go for an elastic material of the stretch type (2D,3D or 4D) for extensible and flexible work pants. This is a real asset for trades that require crouching or bending regularly.

In addition, some pants models are convertible into work shorts for increased comfort during hot weather.

Your protective pants accompany you daily in your activity, so they will be confronted with wear. The resistance of pants is mainly characterized by two factors: the material and the construction.

The material plays a dominant role in the robustness of the pants, but also in safety. Indeed, as stated in the first part, certain standards must be respected depending on your work environment. If you are confronted with flammable products, direct your choice towards 100% cotton work pants to avoid the risk of burns.

The other aspect related to the resistance of work pants is none other than their construction. Depending on your activity, certain repetitive movements directly impact your work clothing. To cope with this wear, many brands use topstitching to reinforce the seams of your clothing. This is not the only technique used, as it is also possible to double or even triple the seam of a panel.

In addition, the use of certain materials also helps guarantee additional resistance such as Cordura (brand of fabrics known for their lifespan, their resistance to abrasion, tearing as well as scratches) but also Ripstop (tear-resistant fabric thanks to the addition of an additional fiber).
Of course, the use of stretch is not only dedicated to comfort, its integration into work clothing helps limit tearing in certain highly stressed areas.

The last aspect for choosing your work pants is the design, which is now becoming an increasingly essential criterion for professionals.

The true work blue is now outdated, and professionals want to have work clothing that has style. Whether to match the company's visual identity, to enhance its image or simply to be able to go about their business after a day's work, professionals want to have adequate clothing. 

A fitted cut, trendy colors, the mixture of material and technology, all the factors discussed previously will have a direct impact on the design of work pants.

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