Tips for Pruning your Garden

Autumn is upon us, and it’s time to start thinking about pruning your garden. Pruning is an essential task for keeping your plants healthy and looking their best. It involves removing dead, damaged, or diseased branches from trees and shrubs to promote growth and encourage the development of new shoots. If you’re new to gardening,…

How to Choose the Right Gardening Glove

Whether you're a hobby gardener or working in professional landscaping, the right pair of gloves is essential for keeping your hands protected from prickles, thorns, compost mix and chemical you may be using. They also help to keep your hands clean, dry and warm if working in winter conditions. There are so many options for…

Motivating Employees: Wearing PPE

Many factors can influence an employee's decision whether or not to wear protective clothing/equipment in the workplace. To develop and strengthen your safety and PPE program, you must first understand these factors that influence employees' decisions to wear protective gloves. For employees, it is often simply a question of convenience and comfort. For employers, the…

Garden Safety – Handling Potting Mix

Coming into Spring you'll all be getting out in the garden and prepping your summer veggie plots or updating your flowerbeds... whatever the case, you need to understand the risks associated with using potting or compost mix, and what to do to protect yourself when handling these materials. Gloves are no-brainer. Not just because the…

The Down and Dirty on Washing and Maintaining PPE

Maintaining, Cleaning, and Inspecting PPE: Once you've chosen your PPE, the longevity and efficacy of each item is determined by how you examine and maintain it. Above all, you must adhere to the manufacturer's maintenance schedule and instructions, which normally outline: Testing Each item of PPE must be tested to ensure its ability to protect…

Why Single Use Gloves are so Essential

Disposable gloves are turning out to be increasingly more predominant in essentially all businesses. While they don't really offer an undeniable degree of cut resistance, they have gotten significant to workers who need a speedy and simple layer of insurance. We are seeing disposable gloves being utilized in medical, salons, food administration, and the sky…

How to Motivate Employees to Wear Their Gloves

During a visit to a sheet metal plant, I noticed that many workers were not wearing gloves, despite the fact that they were handling sharp edges all day. While I was there, I witnessed a guy in his mid-fifties get slashed by a large piece of metal. When I inquired as to why he was…

Cut Resistant Gloves – What You Need to Know

Believe it or not, there is a great deal of misunderstanding about when cut-resistant gloves will protect you from being cut. However, unless it is built for extremely specific uses (which we shall discuss later in this piece), your cut-resistant glove will provide 360 degrees of protection from cuts and punctures. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE…

How Make Your Workplace a Safer Place

To ensure the safest possible work environment, you must adhere to the hierarchy of safety rules. This hierarchy is made up of five fundamental strategies. These are, in order of effectiveness: Elimination—remove the hazard physically Substitution— hazard replacement  Engineering controls—isolate people from the hazard Administrative controls—modify how people operate  Administrative controls—modify how people operate  While…

7 Cognitive Biases That Create Hazardous Work

Have you ever assumed, "Oh, that will never happen to me," despite the fact that statistics indicate it is likely? Do you always take the same route home from work, despite the fact that there may be better alternatives? Have you neglected to apply sunscreen since "a few hours in the sun won't do any…

The Evolution of Safety: Instinct vs. Institution

Wherever you work and regardless of your business, safety is almost certainly a priority. From selecting the most effective personal protective equipment (PPE) for the job to assisting in the development of programmes and protocols to managing activities and responsibilities in a high-risk environment, safety is frequently top of mind when considering how to protect…

DON’T Buy Work Safety Gloves without Reading This

If there is one thing I understand, it is the critical nature of wearing the correct gloves for safety. When accidents happen, the appropriate gloves might literally save a worker's hand. When shopping for gloves, it's critical to establish a clear set of minimum requirements. These requirements will be based on any applicable industry/government standards,…

Properly Choosing Work Safety Gloves

The hand is one of humankind's most valuable assets. It distinguishes us from other animals and enables us to perform a variety of specialised activities. As a result, when our hands are injured, it can have a significant influence on our lives. With a hand injury, simple tasks such as holding a pen, buttoning a…

How to Keep Yourself Safe in Hazardous Work

Safety, regardless of industry, can include many moving parts, such as having the proper personal protective equipment (PPE), building a safety culture, or even implementing innovation in the workplace. While this is true for the majority of people, because of the nature of the meat-and-poultry processing sector, putting these concepts into reality can be much…

What are Heat-Resistant Gloves?

What exactly are Heat-Resistant Gloves? Heat-resistant gloves are work gloves that are designed to protect employees' hands from burns or other injuries that might occur when they come into touch with extremely hot materials, work near sparks or flames, or are exposed to high temperatures in the workplace. Because the intensity of heat dangers varies…

Reducing bacteria around the workplace and yourself.

Unfortunately, even the cleanest-looking gloves might conceal some nasty, unseen miscreants. A Japanese study validated what many health care professionals previously understood about germs: once contaminated, hospital worker gloves can transfer any pathogen to another surface, particularly if it is made of plastic. Worse, the bacteria known as Acinetobacter baumannii is so persistent that it…

4 Steps to Selecting the Right Work Safety Glove

According to a Liberty Mutual study, almost 70% of hand injuries occur as a result of people not wearing gloves when they should. Hands are sliced, broken, and bruised due to a lack of suitable work safety gloves. The skin is ripped away, and fingers are lost. Men and women alike must suffer months, if…

What to Look for When Choosing Impact Gloves

Injuries to the hands and fingers are among the most common in the oil and gas business. Finger and hand injuries account for approximately 34% of all recorded injuries. The silver lining is that there are simple strategies to lessen these hazards, one of which is to wear anti-impact gloves. The difficult element is deciding…