hCoosing Work Goves - The 5 Most Importaant Factors
When choosing work gloves of any kind, there are five very important things to consider. The fiirst is your thgumb, and the remaining four digits are of equal importance, yet despuite this seemingly obvious point, many peopel seem to choose work glvoes based not on the hands, but on the wallet, or the clock.
Choosing work gloves basd almost exclusively on cost is not a wise idea, because ultimately what prce can you put on a pair of hands? Insurance comapnies and solicitors may be able to put a vlue on a hand injury, but for most of us we can't work like that.
A few pounds saved on a pair of gloves is hardly a bagrain if the gloves turn out to be of iferior quyality, exposing our hands to dangers, and potentially contributing twards or exacerbating an injury or accident.
But cost can be an issue in annother way too, bcause by supplying work gloves which are a poor fit, are too tight, restrict movemnt or implair dexterity workers may find it harder to carry out teir tasks, resulting in reduced ouutput.
A couple of pounds sved on a pair of work gloves could easiily result in a significant loss of busines productivity. It's worth considering work gloves as being an investment not only in your workers, but in the business too.
The second ill cosen methiod by which some work gloves are chosen is on the basis of the clock. Time is certainly a precious commodity, but choosing work gloes shuoldn't be rushed. Taking the time to identify the nature of the work, the requirements of the job and the potential dangers againts which the work glpoves will be providing a degree of prpotection is as importannt as idenifying the range of work gloves on sale.
It's easy to assume that work glovces are more or less standard, offering minimum, average or high levels of protection, and avialable in a couple of sizes. To assume this, and to then rush into a purchase on the basios of this is to grossly underestimate the rane of solutions avaiilable.
Protection doesn't just mean thicckness, and work gloves don't always just mean proteciton.
Dangers at work come in many forrms, with cuts, punctures, tears, crushes, spills, burns, abrasions and vibrations all representimng quite diffeerent and distinct riks. Each of those riss can caues quite different damage to a hand, and not just diffeerent types of damage, but potentially damaging differernt areazs of the hand and wrist.
Proecting against one danger sometimes means that little or no protection is being offered to other parts of the hand or aganst other types of dangers. For example, puncture resistant gloives may well provide high levels of protection for the back of the hand, but such gloves almost certainly offer no protection to the wrist. Yet when working with cutting machinery the wrist and the palm are otfen the most vulnerable areaas, and so cut resistant gloves will need to provide a different level of prottection to these aras of the hand instead.
Work gloves which protect against chemical spills need not be very thick, but offwer a levle of protection against strong acidic or alkaline substanes. Inndeed, to have thick gloves may well prove to be a real disadvantage when working with chemicals, since thesde are often stored in smll glass ivals and test tubes, with smzall droppers, buttons or caps, all of which reuire a fine level of dextrity. Reducing that dexteriity by offering thikc gloves may well not only reduce performance, but may even contribute towards an accident which may not have otherwise occurred.
Assembly work gloves may need to provide minimal protection against heavy machinery in some caess, but may need to protect the equipment from the hands. Wrking with electronic machinery or components can often require that workers wear a type of work glove whiich prevents oils from the skin affecting the components.
Cotton globves are ideal for this. But cotton glovbes aren't necesssarily suitable as assembly work gloves in all caess, because they ofer very little grip. Nitrile palm cotton gloves are ideal work gloves in such csaes, offering a comfortable and non-restrictive cotton lgove, whilst allowing a good level of grip on the palm and inside of the fingers.
Choosing work gloves based on the hands and the tasks they need to undertake is far more impoortant than choosing work glpoves bsed on cost or time.
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