The Different Types of Safety Gloves

 The Different Types of Safety Gloves

There are a wide range of Safety Gloves which are suitable for all kinds of work places from the construction industry to home use and for general work safety. Safety Gloves are needed for most work environments due a number of reason’s depending on the line of work you are doing. This will mean that you may need different types of safety gloves for different jobs depending where you work and the sort of work you under take.

Finding The Right Safety Gloves Finding and using the right sort of protective gloves is very important as if you use the incorrect gloves you could end up doing some serious damage to yourself or others around you. For example you wouldn’t wear disposable gloves when handling glass, you would wear cut resistant gloves as they are designed to help stop the glass from cutting through into your hands.

For this reason we have created this page to explain which protective gloves are to be used for each kind of job whilst you work, we are also hopping this will help to keep your work environment safety with this extra safety equipment help. Cotton Gloves Cotton safety gloves are generally used as a glove liner or when you need to keep within hygiene rules. This type of glove is often used as a glove liner due to its comfort and soft cotton to help keep you comfortable at work all day long.

Cut Resistant Gloves Cut resistant safety gloves are generally used in a work environment where you would be using knifes or other sharp objects such as glass in your day to day role. The cut resistant glove has been design to protect and last longer in heavy wear area’s such as a reinforced thumb crotch along with fingerless Kevlar grips for added protection whilst offering a easy working touch.

Cut Resistant Reflex Gloves Cut resistant safety gloves are generally used with sharp objects such as handling glass, knifes and much more. These are a great fit due to having high wear areas reinforced and glove-less fingers to leave you free to carry out fiddly bits whilst still being highly protected.

Disposable Gloves Disposable safety gloves are made from Latex and Vinyl, and are generally used for quick and short term jobs to save time and money on buying heavy duty gloves for a simple job. All disposable gloves come in a smooth finish with beaded cuffs and are very light meaning that you can do any job with ease.

There are a wide range of gloves from a number of leading brand names in the PPE & Safety Equipment industry. Some of these leading manufacturers of safety gloves include such brands as; Polyco, Supertouch and Uvex.

General Handling Gloves General handling gloves are flexible gloves designed to be used for general work use to help keep your hands safe at work. These are generally made of a light weight seamless knitted material, which helps to give a maximum dexterity for even the most tactile jobs without failing to give the highest protection possible.

General Reflex Gloves General reflex gloves offer all the same options and protection as the general handling gloves but with an added latex coating to give even more grip for superior and secure handling in the work place with most tasks.

Ironclad Gloves Ironclad safety gloves are made with Ironclad as the name states. These are generally used as a general utility glove as they offer superior safety and comfort and are also light enough to be worn all day, making them the ideal glove for most work duties.

Rigger Gloves Rigger gloves are generally used for gardening and rubbish removal due to the thickness and heavyweight material. These are normal made up of a hide leather patch palm for a heavy duty and rigged palm, and use a cotton drill back with rubberised safety cuffs. These are the choice of many due to the fact they can be used on almost an job because of there superior thickness and heavyweight materials.

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