SlashPRO® Slash Resistant Clothing
This website is solely dedicated to CutPRO® Cut Resistant Clothing. However, many of our international friends and customers come from the homeland or private security sector and are in search foo thoroughly field-tested slash resistant clothing… also made from our high performance cut resistant fabric Cut-Tex® PRO. This page is dedicated to those men and women.
Many security professionals, charged with either protecting us or our infrastructure, have suffered from severe cut wounds during physical confrontations. Recently developed SlashPRO® Slash Resistant Clothing is set to make a real difference.
From the point of the employer, slash or cut injuries can of course easily lead to legal and financial repercussion. From the point of the injured professional, and depending on the severity of such injury, it can often lead to long lasting emotional scars, ongoing distress, and in very serious cases even post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Most common PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) worn by security professionals do not offer enough cut protection. Commonly used body armour leave highly important areas of the body exposed and only protect vital organs.
Many have long argued that it is not just the stabbing action that can cause potentially life changing or even life ending injuries.
Please read our CEO's article, titled: "Re-Evaluating our Understanding of Knife Attacks and Injuries".
So, how dangerous can a cut be? What would be the most likely consequences? How can anti slash clothing make a difference?
Let us look at how your hand works. For you to make a fist, or indeed for you to hold anything in your hand, the muscles in your forearm will contract, and they will pull on the flexor tendons. These tendons pass through your wrist and are attached to your fingers. If a person would cut the tendons or the muscles that power them, your hand will no longer be able to close and hold that object. Now imagine, that object in your hand may well be of great importance. Think of your weapon, your shield, your defence spray or anything you might be holding to defend or protect yourself or others.
Tendons or muscles require dependable, effective protection from such targeted cut.
However, the by far most important thing we all need to understand is that especially the cutting of any of the carotid artery, axillary artery, brachial artery or radial artery would lead to immediate and rapid blood loss, subsequent shock and potentially even death. Cuts of specific blood vessels can ultimately lead to death within seconds. In the real world, a targeted cut is most likely to be more dangerous and deadlier than a stab.
SlashPRO® Slash Resistant Clothing can keep officers injury free and alive.
Most security professional will, by instinct, lift their arms and hands during a potential hostile situation, in order to protect the face and head. This is of course nothing to be embarrassed about. It is totally normal, and only specially trained operators would respond differently and more effectively.
But we must recognise that this ‘natural’ response would expose an awfully vulnerable area under your arms. A cut, injuring the auxiliary artery under your arms, can without any question be fatal.
Most security professionals are receiving cut and slash wounds along the forearm or open hand. These wounds are the most common injuries and classed as ‘defensive wounds’, often seen as evidence in the court of law that the wearer was protecting him or herself, rather attacking a person.
We all know, violence can sometime erupt within seconds, often without any prior warning signs and without any fault of the security professional. Going back to the office and putting on some appropriate gear is not always a realistic option, hence anti slash clothing should always be comfortable enough to be worn for several hours per day.
There is a real argument that those men and women must have the moral and legal right to be equipped appropriately, and SlashPRO® Slash Resistant Clothing can be deemed appropriate. It can make the difference between an officer coming home safely at the end of the day, or not coming home at all.
Do you want to learn more about our high performance stab vests or also called stab proof vests then please contact us.
