For many people, grip is one of the key performance features required when looking for selecting the right glove for a particular application. To help identify which protective gloves in our range provide good grip in which environments, we have created a new set of Grip Icons, which you will see throughout the website product pages. 

 

There are 4 icons that make up the Glove Grip Performance Guide:

 

Oily Conditions	Dry Conditions	Wet Conditions	Food Oil Environments

As working conditions are often fixed, the only factor that can be modified to provide a better grip is the glove, and each glove has a different grip performance.

 

Where a glove from our range has particularly good glove grip performance in one of those environments, based on the results of a series of in-situ tests that have been specially developed in our R&D facility in Malaysia, you will see the most relevant Grip Icon next to it.

 

As a leader in workplace Hand & Arm Protection (HAP) we are constantly striving to make the protective glove selection process as simple as possible and measure the grip power of relevant gloves in our range.

 

This test system is based on creating a COF (Coefficient of Friction Value) for a glove material in a number of simulated environments – e.g. dry, oily or wet, the results highlight how each glove’s grip performs in the simulated environment. The Grip Icons quickly highlight a good glove grip performance in one of these environments. Protective gloves with highest COF per environment will be identified throughout this website using the appropriate Grip Icon.

A good grip performance contributes to the safest HAP solution by helping to reduce tiredness and thus reducing the likelihood of injury or longer-term afflictions such as muscular traumatism. Thus correct protective glove selection can result in less time of sick for employees and provide cost savings for the organisation.