Hand Protection
The Right Gloves For the Task At Hand
Maintenance workers wear many hats and often perform tasks spontaneously, which means they may not be wearing the hand protection they need....
Fits Like a Glove: Protecting the Hands of Construction Workers
Protecting the hands of construction workers is not an easy task. They need gloves that fit like a second skin while also offering protection from the sharp edges of building materials...
Keeping the Chill Out: Working Safe in Cold Weather
When working in cold temperatures, the best defense is common sense. Knowing what to wear, what to eat and drink and what to do if an employee is suffering from a cold-related illness can save lives...
At-Home Safety: Pumpkin Carving Safety Advice
With Halloween just around the corner, you might have already purchased your pumpkin and are gearing up to carve it. While the whole family usually partakes in this fun tradition, it’s an activity that also comes with safety risks...
Better Choices Improve Hand Protection for the Construction Industry
The move away from leather to the protection, personal comfort, fit, launderability and flexibility of task-specific gloves is redefining hand protection...
Workers Are Risking Injury By Not Wearing Safety Equipment
A new survey of safety professionals has found a high incidence of employee noncompliance with corporate and federal mandates to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)...
Providing Protection After the Quake
When disaster strikes, Americans respond – sending food, water, clothing and money to help those suffering. Often overlooked, however, are the men and women volunteering their days and nights to help pull communities out of wreckage...
Cut Resistance: What's In a Level 5 Glove?
All CE Level 5 gloves are not created equal. Many of these gloves offer a minimal level of protection for industrial applications...
Beware the Wrath of “Wrap Rage”
Do you have “wrap rage” at the thought of trying to pry open the packaging of all those holiday gifts? In addition to being frustrating and time-consuming, it appears opening gifts can cause injury, as well: A recent polls shows that about 17 percent of Pennsylvania adults experienced an injury or know someone who was injured while opening gifts during past seasons...
Protecting the Hands of Working Women
With 70 million working women, manufacturers of personal protective equipment are offering extra-small sizes and other accommodations to keep female workers injury-free and productive...
Better Grip Means Better Hand Protection
Avoid the disasters that can occur whenever slippery or oily parts slide out of a worker's grasp, or when hands slip out of control from a slippery surface into harm's way...
Healthy Hands Week is June 8-12, 2009
The American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT) is sponsoring Healthy Hands Week, June 8-12,...
Knives and Cutting What Dangers are Lurking in Your Workplace?
Did you know you could promote and support your workplace safety culture by instituting a safety cutter program?...
Next-Gen Hand Protection for Construction Professionals
OSHA mandates and advanced technologies are ushering in groundbreaking personal protective equipment for the 21st century....
R&D Drives Hand Protection Innovation
More than 1 million U.S. workers receive emergency treatment for acute hand injuries each year, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 110,000 workers with hand and finger injuries lose days at work annually, which is second only to back problems as a cause of lost workdays. ...
A Practical Guide to Hand Protection
Gloves protect hands from injuries. If only it was as simple to say that if all workers, from medical to industrial and everything in between, would just wear gloves, then more than 1 million hospital emergency visits by U.S. workers per year (according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) could be avoided. ...
What's in a Glove?
Its an age-old challenge for the glove manufacturing industry: making gloves that fully protect workers from potential hazards while not interfering with...
Getting a Grip on Hand and Arm Safety
Our hands are one of our primary points of interaction with the world around us. We cook and clean with them, we write and eat with them, we say hello...
Poultry Industry Investigation Prompts Congressional Hearings
A team of Observer editors and reporters spent nearly two years interviewing over 200 poultry workers and examining industry documents. They ultimately...
Excessive Hand Washing Linked to Hand Dermatitis
A study, conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the American Academy of Dermatology, focused...
Responder Safety: The Lingering Threat of Avian Flu
Headlines warning of a possible pandemic flu outbreak have started to wane, but the threat is far from over. According to the Centers for Disease Control...
Myth Busting: Six Things You Thought Wrong about Work Gloves
The truth is, if you are making decisions about gloves using the wrong information, you might be making a huge mistake. There are several things people...
Chamber of Commerce: Don't Micromanage OSHA
According to the chamber, the provisions in the bill create an unacceptable level of micromanaging OSHA in a way that would impair the agency's ability...
House Dems Applaud DOL's PPE Decision
The standard has been on hold since 1999, and the decision to release it was prompted by a lawsuit filed by the AFL-CIO and the United Food and Commercial...
OSHA Issues Revised Amputation Guide
The guide Safeguarding Equipment and Protecting Employees from Amputations will tie into OSHAs National Emphasis Program on Amputations, which the agency...
