Găng tay Protective equipment is equipment to protect hands during work, so do you know why protective gloves are important? Or how to choose the right type of gloves for your job? Let's find the answer with An Nhien in the article below.
What are safety gloves?
Protective gloves are gloves specifically designed to protect workers' hands from potential hazards in the work environment. They are made from a variety of materials, each with its own characteristics to suit different types of work and work environments.
What are safety gloves?
The main function of protective gloves is to protect hands from physical factors such as cuts, impacts, etc. or toxic chemicals. In addition, protective gloves also help keep hands warm when working in cold weather conditions or against welding sparks at high temperatures, preventing electric current from entering the body and causing electric shock. And ensure hygiene in some industries such as food processing, medicine, etc.
Why use protective gloves?
Using protective gloves brings many important benefits to users, including:
1. Protect health and life
- Prevent accidents: Protective gloves help protect workers' hands from potential risks during work such as cuts, crushed fingers, welding burns during mechanical work or protection from chemicals that corrode the skin of the hands such as in jobs that often require exposure to chemicals, etc.
- Reducing the risk of occupational accidents: Using the right gloves can help reduce the risk of occupational accidents, especially those involving the hands.
- Long-term health protection: Frequent exposure to harmful agents can lead to hand skin diseases, even affecting overall health in the long term. Protective gloves help minimize these risks, contributing to protecting the health of workers during work.
2. Increase labor productivity
- Feeling safe and confident: When fully protected, workers will feel safer and more confident when performing their work, thereby improving efficiency and productivity.
- Precise and flexible operation: Protective gloves are designed to fit the hand, helping workers operate more easily and flexibly.
- Minimize errors: When hands are protected, workers will be less distracted by uncomfortable feelings or worry about the risk of accidents, thereby minimizing errors during the work process.
Why use protective gloves?
3. Contribute to creating a safe working environment
Using protective gloves is one of the mandatory regulations on labor safety in many industries and regulations of the Ministry of Labor, contributing to ensuring a safe working environment for everyone.
What are the types of protective gloves?
Protective gloves are classified according to many different criteria, the most common being:
1. Classification by material
- Leather gloves: Soft, flexible, easy to operate.
- Suede gloves: Heat-resistant, fire-resistant, durable, protect hands from cuts and welding sparks.
- Fabric gloves: Breathable, comfortable to use, cheapest among protective gloves. However, low durability, easy to tear or puncture,
- Kevlar gloves: Heat-resistant, fire-resistant, good cut resistance, high durability.
- Rubber gloves: Chemical-resistant, waterproof. However, low durability, easy to tear or puncture, poor cut resistance.
2. Classification by purpose of use
- Cut-resistant gloves: Protect hands from cuts caused by sharp objects. Often used in industries such as mechanics, manufacturing, electronic components manufacturing, etc.
- Impact-resistant gloves: Minimize the impact of impact force on hands. Often used in industries such as construction, mining, freight transport, etc.
- Heat-resistant gloves: Protect hands from high temperatures. Often used in industries such as metallurgy, welding, etc.
- Fire-resistant gloves: Protect hands from fire and molten materials. Often used in industries such as firefighting, metallurgy, etc.
- Chemical-resistant gloves: Protect hands from toxic chemicals, often used in industries such as medicine, chemicals, wastewater treatment, etc.
- Insulating gloves: Protect hands from electric current, often used in industries such as electrical repair, electrical maintenance, etc.
What are the types of protective gloves?
3. Classification by structure
- One-finger gloves: Often used in professions that require high flexibility such as electronic component assembly, jewelry manufacturing, etc.
- Two-finger gloves: Provide flexibility for the index and middle fingers, often used in professions such as electricians, mechanics, etc.
- Three-finger gloves: Provide flexibility for the index, middle and ring fingers, often used in professions such as tailors, craftsmen, etc.
- Full-finger gloves: Protect the entire hand, often used in high-risk professions such as construction, mining, etc.
4. Classification by safety standards
- EN 388: European standard for protective gloves against mechanical hazards. This standard includes 4 main tests and is marked with specific letters or numbers on the glove.
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- Abrasion resistance. The level of protection of gloves is rated on a scale of 1 to 4, where 4 is the highest level of protection.
- Khả năng chống cắt (Blade cut) có 5 cấp độ từ 1 – 5
- Blade cut resistance has 5 levels from 1 to 5
- Tear resistance has 4 levels from 1 to 4
Puncture resistance has 4 levels from 1 to 4 - Impact resistance, no symbol means not tested and symbol P means impact resistance is achieved.
- EN 420 Standard: European standard on basic requirements for protective gloves, including requirements on comfort, durability, adhesion, etc.
- TCVN 8838 Standard: Vietnamese standard on labor protective gloves, stipulates requirements on quality, safety and hygiene for protective gloves manufactured, imported and circulated in the Vietnamese market.
How to choose the right protective gloves
To choose the right work gloves, you need to consider the following factors:
- Working environment: Potential risks during work such as chemicals, temperature, sharp objects, etc.
How to choose the right protective gloves
- Usage needs: The work operations that need to be performed. For example, jobs that are often exposed to chemicals and have to handle equipment should use PU-coated cut-resistant gloves.
- Price: Choose gloves that fit your budget.
Conclude
Hopefully the above information has helped you answer questions about labor protection gloves. Contact An Nhien Company to get advice on suitable protective gloves and buy at the best price.