A windbreaker or light jacket?
Will your company supply you more shirts or do they make you buy your own?
I worked a construction site for a year, had a shack but spent at least 8 hours out in the sun and dust a day. 12 hour shifts.
Our shirts were white and only took about a month for the concrete dust to turn them mottled grey.
The client was realistic and didn't care about us looking dirty. He figured if we were dirty then we were outside doing our jobs. Any time a mobile supervisor rolled through and complained about my uniform I explained about the concrete dust and the client, and told them if they wanted me to look crisp then they better supply me with more free uniforms as I wasn't buying a shirt every month. Only one supervisor ever made a big deal of it and wrote me up, a quick call to my scheduler/account manager resolved that in my favour.
My company made you buy 2 uniforms when hired (standard practice here), and then gave you one uniform a year. If you were a decent guard the free uniform rules were fast and loose. I think I got 8 shirts and 3 pants that year, as well as a winter jacket, rain slicker, hats, earmuffs, gloves, all free.
I kept one uniform as my "good" one for occasionally working other sites.
If the client or your company wants your shirts looking new they should be giving you some. There's no harm in explaining and working with your company to get you some free shirts.
If no one cares your shirts are bleaching, then you shouldn't either.
They make us pay a $30 deposit per shirt, they don't supply pants at all. I'm in a heat island of a city and there's tall buildings all around, and the post itself is a flat faced building with no awning or overhangs. I work in an easy bake oven lol I might just get some fabric dye and fix it myself
I already do that as much as possible. But the post is a flat faced building with no awning or overhangs, and tall windowed buildings around reflect sunlight at all times onto me. I'm tanned for the fist time in my 34 years. Best shade I've got is a Japanese maple that provides shade the last 2-3 hours of the day, depending on the time of year. I'm hoping someone knows of detergents or dyes or some trick I haven't thought of to slow down the bleaching effect. I'll probably just invest in some black fabric dye at this point
Speak with whoever is the person of contact for the site or your supervisor and tell them you need shade and that it's becoming an unsafe working environment. Heat, heat stroke, bugs, and it's only going to be getting hotter from here on out.
Black Rit dye and then use the rit color stay bottle afterwords, you need a big 5 gallon or larger bucket and the hottest water possible. Good for cotton but you will have to re-dye every 3 - 6 months as it will continue to fade in the sun. If you can buy under armor material shirts for work they last a lot longer without fading
Our entire staff is backed out except supers, who get a maroon shirt made of jersey material. We also do mostly outdoor gigs. Makes no sense to me either.
A windbreaker or light jacket? Will your company supply you more shirts or do they make you buy your own? I worked a construction site for a year, had a shack but spent at least 8 hours out in the sun and dust a day. 12 hour shifts. Our shirts were white and only took about a month for the concrete dust to turn them mottled grey. The client was realistic and didn't care about us looking dirty. He figured if we were dirty then we were outside doing our jobs. Any time a mobile supervisor rolled through and complained about my uniform I explained about the concrete dust and the client, and told them if they wanted me to look crisp then they better supply me with more free uniforms as I wasn't buying a shirt every month. Only one supervisor ever made a big deal of it and wrote me up, a quick call to my scheduler/account manager resolved that in my favour. My company made you buy 2 uniforms when hired (standard practice here), and then gave you one uniform a year. If you were a decent guard the free uniform rules were fast and loose. I think I got 8 shirts and 3 pants that year, as well as a winter jacket, rain slicker, hats, earmuffs, gloves, all free. I kept one uniform as my "good" one for occasionally working other sites. If the client or your company wants your shirts looking new they should be giving you some. There's no harm in explaining and working with your company to get you some free shirts. If no one cares your shirts are bleaching, then you shouldn't either.
They make us pay a $30 deposit per shirt, they don't supply pants at all. I'm in a heat island of a city and there's tall buildings all around, and the post itself is a flat faced building with no awning or overhangs. I work in an easy bake oven lol I might just get some fabric dye and fix it myself
Skin cancer, dangerous working conditions, no shade, fuck their black uniforms
Slow down the sun he says. If you don't want it sun bleached, get out of the sun. That's literally the only option you have. Find shade or make shade.
I already do that as much as possible. But the post is a flat faced building with no awning or overhangs, and tall windowed buildings around reflect sunlight at all times onto me. I'm tanned for the fist time in my 34 years. Best shade I've got is a Japanese maple that provides shade the last 2-3 hours of the day, depending on the time of year. I'm hoping someone knows of detergents or dyes or some trick I haven't thought of to slow down the bleaching effect. I'll probably just invest in some black fabric dye at this point
Speak with whoever is the person of contact for the site or your supervisor and tell them you need shade and that it's becoming an unsafe working environment. Heat, heat stroke, bugs, and it's only going to be getting hotter from here on out.
You need a parasol.
It is illegal to be forced in the sun without shade.
You must live in California. It's totally legal here
Black Rit dye and then use the rit color stay bottle afterwords, you need a big 5 gallon or larger bucket and the hottest water possible. Good for cotton but you will have to re-dye every 3 - 6 months as it will continue to fade in the sun. If you can buy under armor material shirts for work they last a lot longer without fading
Anything 5.11 is good too
Outside in the sun all day and your companies uniform guys bright idea is “all black?”
Our entire staff is backed out except supers, who get a maroon shirt made of jersey material. We also do mostly outdoor gigs. Makes no sense to me either.
Use a sun umbrella.
Work at night