NOVENEX Toolbox Talk — Hand Protection — Choosing the Right Glove
PPE & Workwear · ±6 minutes · novenex.tech/toolbox-talks
Hands are involved in nearly everything we do, which is why they are the most injured part of the body at work. Most hand injuries happen either with no gloves, or with the wrong gloves — a cotton glove against a blade, a leather glove in acid.
Match the glove to the hazard
- •Cuts and blades: cut-rated gloves (EN 388 level C/5) — not leather riggers.
- •Chemicals: nitrile or PVC gauntlets with the right breakthrough rating; check the chemical chart.
- •Heat and welding: chrome leather gauntlets; never synthetic gloves that melt.
- •Electrical work: insulating gloves with leather overgloves, tested and in date.
When gloves become the hazard
- •Rotating machinery — drills, lathes, bench grinders — can snatch a glove and the hand with it. Follow the machine's glove rule.
- •Wet, oily gloves reduce grip; change them.
- •Gloves with holes or hardened palms have expired.
Discussion — ask the crew
- Which tasks here need cut-rated gloves rather than riggers?
- Where is the chemical compatibility chart kept?
- Which machines on this site must be operated without gloves?
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