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MCMC provides the following personal protective equipment to its outdoor staff, and where appropriate to other staff:
- Long sleeved shirt and long cotton pants (for skin protection from sun, vegetation and biting animals including spiders, snakes and insects)
- Polarfleece jackets (for protection from cold)
- Steel-capped leather boots
- Broad-brimmed hat (sun protection)
- Sunglasses (UV protection)
- Clear safety glasses (eye protection when working near boxthorn or other prickly plants, or with mulch on windy days etc)
- Raincoat and rain pants (protection from rain)
- leather gloves (hand protection including from vibration from brushcutters, but not chemicals)
- Steel-capped gumboots
- nitrile gloves (hand protection from herbicides)
- half face mask with combined vapour and particle cartridge
- Full face mask with combined vapour and particle cartridge (particularly for rig spraying)
- Breathalon spray suit (whole body protection from herbicides)
- Goggles
Personal protective equipment for herbicide use is cleaned after each day's use. Each team member has their own set of equipment assigned to them, which is stored in a lidded plastic box. Filter cartridges are stored in sealed plastic containers between use to preserve their effectiveness.
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