Work gloves are especially designed to protect your hands from getting injured through electric current or when you work with different tools. They also help protect hands in brutal weather conditions. Thus, it is crucial to select gloves according to your work needs and weather conditions in your area.
Types of work gloves
Fight Vibration:
Anti-Vibration gloves are one of the ways of reducing exposure to hand-arm vibration. They also keep your hands warm and prevent your hands from cuts and abrasions. Other regular gloves don’t really do much to lower the vibration transferred to your hands. Anti-Vibration gloves can reduce this to some extent. A layer of viscoelastic material is used for this purpose.
Gardening and Manufacturing:
You need gloves to work in cold weather, especially when you are involved in gardening and manufacturing. Fleece-lined cotton gloves are great for this sort of word as they provide plenty of free movement to your hands. You can use these work gloves in general outdoor work as well.
Freezers:
If you have to work in large freezers or in extremely cold storage, your hands will quickly begin to lose the sense of touch and your skin will become icy. To remain warm and safe, you will need insulated leather freezer gloves. It enables you to move your hands easily and keeps out cold at the same time.
Chemicals and Oil:
Cold weather can keep workers away from chemicals and oils, but thanks to insulated nitrile gloves this problem can easily be resolved. Use these gloves to protect yourself from potentially harmful substance as well as cold temperature.
Glove Leather Types
Cowhide leather is one of the most rugged and economical leathers used to manufacture gloves due to its availability, comfort, and durability. Specifically, cowhide is good for dexterity, durability, pliability, abrasion resistance, and puncture resistance. Cowhide is also very good in keeping hands warm, but is limited in the leather’s breathability. Cowhide dries stiff when it gets wet, becoming hard and losing its flexibility.
Pigskin leather is a soft and supple leather that is more porous, which makes a glove that is comfortable and resistant to moisture, but not quite as warm as cowhide. High lanolin content keeps this leather soft which does not dry out and crack after repeatedly getting wet. Pigskin is an economical alternative to cowhide, offering more dexterity and breathability with superior pliability. Pigskin leather is the most durable and provides the greatest abrasion resistance of cowhide, goatskin, and deerskin.
Goatskin leather has the highest natural lanolin content, which makes a very soft and flexible glove that retains its pliability after getting wet. Goatskin offers the improved dexterity, pliability, and breathability of pigskin over cowhide, but does not offer the durability. Abrasion and puncture resistance are about the same as cowhide, while goatskin does not provide as much protection from the cold as cowhide.