A collaboration between Dakota State University and LifeScape is looking to innovative clothing to protect workers. They’re looking to a common material: plastic.
LifeScape workers deal with biting, scratching or pinching from maladaptive behaviors daily. To protect direct care staff from such behaviors, the LifeScape Foundation raised $50,000 and asked DSU to create lightweight, discreet protective clothing.
That’s coming in the form of protective plastic plates thought up by LifeScape Occupational Therapist Arlen Klamm. The idea was passed on to DSU professor Justin Blessinger, who worked with students to refine the design by contouring it to the human body. That form offers better protection and maintains comfortability and clothing ventilation…