Your Crew Can Handle The Blast Freezer. Their Jacket Can't.

Your workers are lifting pallets, pushing trolleys, loading stock. Their core temperature rises. They start to sweat. A cheap, non-breathable jacket traps that moisture inside — the lining becomes a wet sponge against the skin. The moment they stop moving and sit in the reach truck, that trapped sweat freezes around their chest. Their own body turned their jacket into a refrigerator.

Run a cheap freezer jacket through your commercial laundry once. The unbonded polyester batting inside breaks apart — clumping into hard lumps of fibre. Some sections have zero insulation left. Others have cold spots you can feel through the fabric. Your workers are wearing a jacket that looks intact from the outside but is completely hollow on the inside. And you won't know until absenteeism starts climbing.

One Department of Labour inspector. One unrated jacket on your floor. One prohibition notice. Your entire dispatch line shuts down. Under SANS 10147, every garment in a sub-zero environment must be certified and documented. Cheap imports carry no certification — labelled "extreme winter protection" and backed by nothing. When the audit comes, that label means exactly zero.