Overalls and coveralls, brought in to order.

In the UK these three words mostly mean the same garment: a one-piece suit with sleeves and legs, worn over your own clothes. "Boiler suit" is the older trade word, "coverall" is what the suppliers and the standards use, and "overalls" is what most people say. The one that is genuinely different is bib and brace — that is a trouser with a bib and straps and no sleeves, which is a separate thing again.

Only if they are doing protective work. A plain coverall worn to keep dirt off is ordinary workwear and needs no certification. The moment it is protecting someone from a hazard it becomes PPE and needs the right mark: EN ISO 11612 for heat and flame, EN ISO 11611 for welding, EN 1149 for antistatic work, EN 13034 for light chemical splash. Check the garment's own label and certificate — not the website description.

No, and the difference matters when the garment is washed. Inherently flame-resistant fabric has the property built into the fibre, so it survives the life of the garment. Flame-retardant treated fabric has a chemical finish applied, which degrades with washing and with the wrong detergent. If a garment is treated rather than inherent, ask for the wash count the certificate is tested to and follow the care label exactly.

Size up from your normal shirt size, because a coverall goes over your clothes. Someone who takes a large polo usually wants a large or extra-large coverall, and extra-large if it is going over a fleece in winter. Check the leg length too: most ranges do a regular and a tall, and a regular leg on a short person drags and catches.

Yes, but on certified protective garments it has to be done properly. Embroidery punches through the fabric and on a flame-resistant or antistatic coverall that can compromise the certification, so logos on those usually go onto a certified patch or are heat-applied with an approved transfer. Tell us the garment and the standard and we will tell you what the manufacturer permits — we do not guess on certified kit.

Two per person is the working minimum: one on, one in the wash. Trades that get genuinely filthy every day — groundworks, plant maintenance, spray work — tend to run three. Buying two at a time and reordering is also fine here; there is no minimum order and no setup fee on a repeat.

If the garment is PPE, the employer pays. The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 forbids charging an employee for anything done to meet a statutory duty, and the PPE at Work Regulations extended that duty in April 2022 to cover casual and agency workers too, not just employees. A plain branded coverall worn as a uniform is not PPE and sits under ordinary uniform rules instead.

We can bring them in, but they are not in the ranges we hold data on, so they are a request rather than something we can show you here. Tell us the type you need — Type 5/6 for dust and light splash, Type 4 for spray — the quantity and the sizes, and we will come back with what is available and what it costs.