How To Choose A Satisfactory Protective Glove?

The hand is one of the most delicate and dense organs in the human body. It is composed of 27 bones, accounting for 1/4 of the total number of human bones, and the distribution and organization of muscles, blood vessels, and nerves are extremely complex. The length of capillaries per square centimeter on the fingertips alone can reach several meters. There are thousands of tips. These fine neural networks can make us perceive cold, heat, pain, etc. within a few microseconds, and can even feel the vibrations with the amplitude only as small as a hair. From the day of birth, the hands have not stopped moving. By the end of life, the hands can move 250 million times on average. However, we often neglect the importance of the hand and neglect its proper protection. As a result, hand injuries account for 20% of all kinds of work-related accidents involving incapacity. It can be seen that the correct selection and use of protective equipment is very necessary. Types of hand injuries The types of hand injuries can be divided into three categories.

1. Traumatic trauma This type of hand injury is caused by mechanical damage to bones, muscles or tissues, structures, from severe broken fingers, bone cracks to slight skin and flesh injuries. If you use tools with sharp parts, manipulate some large machines or instruments with knives, points, etc., it will cause hand cuts, etc.; handling and using spindles, nails, screwdrivers, chisels, steel wires, etc. will stab your hands; It can be sprained, crushed or even rolled off the fingers when caught in the machine.

2. Contact dermatitis This type of injury is mainly damage to the skin of the hand. In mild cases, it causes dry skin, peeling, and itching; in severe cases, redness, blisters, herpes, and scars may appear. This type of injury is caused by long-term exposure to acid and alkali aqueous solutions, detergents, disinfectants, etc., or exposure to highly toxic chemical or biological substances, and suffering from electric shock, low-temperature frostbite, high-temperature scald, and flame burn.

3. Long-term manipulation of hand-held vibration tools such as chain saws, rock drills, electric hammers, pneumatic picks, etc., such as arm shaking syndrome and white finger syndrome, can cause such injuries. Long-term vibration of the hand with the tool can also cause damage to the blood circulatory system and cause white finger syndrome. Especially in a wet and cold environment, this situation can easily occur. Due to poor blood circulation, the hands become pale and numb. If the sensory nerve is injured, the sensitivity of the hand to temperature will be reduced, the sense of touch will fail, and it will even cause permanent numbness. Glove materials can choose different types of gloves for various hazards in the working environment, such as chemical resistant gloves for chemical substances, insulating gloves for electrical hazards, high and low temperature gloves for high and low temperature operations, and cutting operations Cut-resistant gloves, shock-resistant gloves for vibration operations, etc. The material of the glove determines the protective performance of the glove and is the basis for the selection of the glove.