More than one-third of all workplace accidents involve hand injuries (and these injuries potentially cost as much as $26,000 each).
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OUR hands are two the most valuable and widely used tools in the workplace. Proper glove selection is essential in protecting these tools from on-the-job hazards. All too often, workers are faced with a very limited understanding of why hand protection is needed or even how to select a glove properly for their application. The wrong glove often is selected for the job task, which risks injury to the worker or a loss in productivity.
Gloves used by workers today must not only perform to the task for which they are selected, but also fit well and provide sufficient levels of comfort so workers will make a conscious choice to wear them. However, the requirements for performance, fit, and comfort vary from application to application. Over the years, studies have confirmed that the comfort level of a pair of gloves directly affects a worker's willingness to wear the gloves. If the gloves do not fit properly or are uncomfortable to wear, the worker will, more than likely, prefer to work without gloves. Of course, unprotected hands are much more susceptible to injury and exposure to harmful substances, which can lead to increased medical and worker's compensation costs, a drop in productivity, or a decline in employee morale.
Knowing which type of glove works for the job task will greatly increase worker safety and productivity. It is important to remember that no single glove will provide protection in all applications or against every hazard or substances. By choosing the right material and construction, gloves should protect the hands from the hazards for which they were selected. It is essential that employers and their employees know which gloves are suitable for their tasks. Correct selection is important both to remain in compliance with OSHA's general hand protection standard found in 29 CFR 1910.138 and to protect workers from injury. With more than one-third of all workplace accidents involving hand injuries (and these injuries potentially costing as much as $26,000 per injury), many companies are continuing to focus on gloves that provide their workers with the best hand protection possible. According to OSHA Fact Sheet 93-03, the financial cost of these injuries is more than $300 million per year in lost production time, medical expenses, and worker's compensation.
Even though OSHA has established guidelines regarding hand protection, glove selection ultimately rests with the employer by conducting a hazard risk assessment. This selection is influenced not only by how well the products protect the workers, but also by how the products and their costs affect the company's bottom line.
This article originally appeared in the June 2007 issue of Occupational Health & Safety.
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Cleanroom gloves are critical to protecting your workers, as well as your product and your process. They must be manufactured to a very high standard at all times. Among the most critical protective features is the absence of defects such as pinholes. The accepted rate of defects allowed to be released after passing though control processes is measured by AQL, the Acceptable Quality Level. This test is one of the most direct indicators of a manufacturer’s quality and process standards.
AQL is an industry-wide, international standard. It is a statistical sampling process for evaluating quality. According to the International Standards Organization (ISO) (2859-1: 19991), AQL is “the worst tolerable process average when a continuing series of lots is submitted for acceptance sampling.” Process average is the typical percentage of defective gloves in the lots/batches sampled. The lower the AQL, the lower the chance of finding a defect such as a pinhole in the batch of gloves and the higher the quality of the product.
Various international standards determine the AQL that manufacturers must comply with for manufacturing surgical and examination gloves. However, manufacturers can set their own standards—as long as they are stricter than the international standards, which is the case with HALYARD* PUREZERO* HG3 Nitrile Gloves.†
Since the cleanroom glove standard landscape tends to be less harmonized, manufacturers typically leverage established water leak test methods developed for examination and surgical gloves as a baseline and then set their own AQL limits based on customer requirements.
For cleanroom gloves, the following two references are used: IEST-RP-CC005 and ISO 374-2:2019. IEST-RPCC005 is a guidance document for cleanroom gloves that recommends water leak testing. ISO 374-2 is part of the standards required for PPE Category III certification of cleanroom gloves. Just as HALYARD* examination and surgical gloves exceed their respective standards, HALYARD* PUREZERO* HG3 Nitrile Gloves comply with PPE Category III requirements and exceed the Level 2 performance requirements defined within ISO 374-2:2019. The accelerator-free1 portfolio is offered in three non-sterile and two sterile options to address the needs of pharmaceutical, medical device, microelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing.
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