Protect your knees with right knee pads
Kneeling is hard work on your knees – so you need to protect them well
If you’re a tradesman, you’ll often be down on your knees throughout the working day, and you know all about the enormous load your knees are exposed to. In fact, tradesmen’s knees take more strain than many top-level athletes!
EN 14404 knee pads for work trousers
Fortunately, it’s easy to protect your knees with knee pads, which come in many different designs. You need to make sure the knee pads fit the knee pad pockets as well as possible. Most often, knee pads and trousers of the same brand will be the best combination, as they’re designed to go together. Incidentally, that’s the only way to comply with the EN 14404 standard.
At cheap-workwear.com, you can get work trousers and knee pads that fit together from brands such as Snickers, Blåkläder, Mascot, Engel, Kansas, Fristads and several others
Different types of knee pads
- Often, affordable knee pads are made of foam or polyethylene, which is light, flexible, stable and provides good pressure distribution. They are not suitable for washing with harsh detergents or at high temperatures, so you’ll have to remove them before washing your work trousers.
- Knee pads made of neoprene or cellular rubber are harder and firmer than those made of foam or polyethylene, which means that they retain their shape for a long time. Some of them can be washed with the trousers; you’ll need to check the care label.
- Some Snickers knee pads have polyethylene balls, which provide good shock absorption and keep their shape in even the toughest conditions. They stay where they need to be, even when you’re crawling. That makes them very suitable for flooring, and they can last a very long time.
- You can also get ergonomic knee pads, which are adapted to the shape of your knee, which makes them very comfortable.
- Cut-resistant knee pads may be needed to protect against sharp objects. Shearproof may sound like it’s a hard material, but it’s not. They are both ergonomic, with air ducts, and extremely comfortable.
- For work on very uneven surfaces, you can get knee pads with a hard plastic shell. These must be attached to the outside of the trousers with an easy hook-and-loop fastening.
- If you wear work shorts, this should not prevent you from using knee pads. You can get shorts with pockets for knee pads.
- Gel knee pads are comfortable, because the thick gel adapts to your knees.
Do you have questions to knee pads?
If you are in doubt about what knee pads you needs, you are always welcome to contact
our customer service at info@cheap-workwear.com or phone 9674 2030.
We are ready to help you find your knee pads.