A Brief Look At Work Gloves
No matter what profession you might find yourself in, there will often come a time when you are required to wear some form of personal protective equipment on your hands. These work gloves can be found in almost any profession that you care to name, but are often worn for completely different reasons. The overall purpose, to protect the wearer does remain the same though.
A profession that everyone is familiar with involves medicine, and possibly most have seen a surgeon or a dentist wearing latex on their hands. The latex is there to help prevent the spread of contamination between doctor and patient, and illustrates a good example of protection being made use of in the working environment. Thanks to the thinness of the material protection is there but it causes no loss of the sense of touch.
Although they are not so common now, but they can still be found, there are the old fashioned butchers. They spend their days cutting up meat with a variety of sharp knives and cleavers. To protect their hands and fingers while doing this, they will often wear a covering made from what looks like old fashioned chain mail.
Another reason that a butcher will require hand coverings is getting carcases from the cold storage units. There are often hooks and similar devices in these facilities. So the butcher will need to be able to maintain a firm grip as they are lifting the sides of meat down, without losing the feeling in their fingertips.
Even the military use various different patterns dependent upon their theater of operations, and their intended tasks. Imagine a service person working on an aircraft, inside the Arctic Circle while on exercise during the winter. They are going to face a wide range of challenges in the course of the working day.
In those areas the weather can be brutally cold, and any area of exposed skin can soon suffer. Modern aircraft have metal surfaces, and an unprotected hand can soon stick to the metal once the temperature dips below a certain level. Therefore hand protection has to be worn, but it can't be too bulky otherwise some jobs would be impossible.
Sometimes these also come with small rubber blisters on the palms and the fingers. This enables tools and things to be held without the danger of them being dropped into deep snow. Also thanks to these blisters a level of control is also maintained.
Even such routine operations involving oils and fuels can be problematic. Any fuel which splashes onto any skin is liable to cause a cold burn. The normal hand wear with the rubber blisters will not afford the required protection as the whole hand needs protecting. So a pair made from cotton and coated in a rubberized compound is used. Even when not involved in operations everyone needs to cover up.
So the requirements for work gloves are many and varied, and much depends upon who will be wearing them. Too thin and they might not provide the required level of protection. Too thick and the wearer might not have the degree of touch which they would wish for. Also if they are made from the wrong material then they will not be suitable for the purpose.
A profession that everyone is familiar with involves medicine, and possibly most have seen a surgeon or a dentist wearing latex on their hands. The latex is there to help prevent the spread of contamination between doctor and patient, and illustrates a good example of protection being made use of in the working environment. Thanks to the thinness of the material protection is there but it causes no loss of the sense of touch.
Although they are not so common now, but they can still be found, there are the old fashioned butchers. They spend their days cutting up meat with a variety of sharp knives and cleavers. To protect their hands and fingers while doing this, they will often wear a covering made from what looks like old fashioned chain mail.
Another reason that a butcher will require hand coverings is getting carcases from the cold storage units. There are often hooks and similar devices in these facilities. So the butcher will need to be able to maintain a firm grip as they are lifting the sides of meat down, without losing the feeling in their fingertips.
Even the military use various different patterns dependent upon their theater of operations, and their intended tasks. Imagine a service person working on an aircraft, inside the Arctic Circle while on exercise during the winter. They are going to face a wide range of challenges in the course of the working day.
In those areas the weather can be brutally cold, and any area of exposed skin can soon suffer. Modern aircraft have metal surfaces, and an unprotected hand can soon stick to the metal once the temperature dips below a certain level. Therefore hand protection has to be worn, but it can't be too bulky otherwise some jobs would be impossible.
Sometimes these also come with small rubber blisters on the palms and the fingers. This enables tools and things to be held without the danger of them being dropped into deep snow. Also thanks to these blisters a level of control is also maintained.
Even such routine operations involving oils and fuels can be problematic. Any fuel which splashes onto any skin is liable to cause a cold burn. The normal hand wear with the rubber blisters will not afford the required protection as the whole hand needs protecting. So a pair made from cotton and coated in a rubberized compound is used. Even when not involved in operations everyone needs to cover up.
So the requirements for work gloves are many and varied, and much depends upon who will be wearing them. Too thin and they might not provide the required level of protection. Too thick and the wearer might not have the degree of touch which they would wish for. Also if they are made from the wrong material then they will not be suitable for the purpose.
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