How to use Assessment & Wear Tests for Validating Your Glove Choice

Hand protection is a critical aspect of safety in the manufacturing industry. With the constant handling of heavy machinery, tools and raw materials, workers are exposed to a range of hazards that can cause serious injuries. To ensure the well-being of employees, it is crucial to choose the right hand protection. This can be a daunting task, given the abundance of options available in the market. This is where the Radians Assessment & Wear Tests come in to help, by providing objective guidance on selecting the best gloves for the workplace. In this webinar, you'll gain valuable insights into the importance of hand protection and how it can positively impact both worker safety and the bottom line. In this session you’ll learn:

• How to manage risk to prevent injuries
• How to gain worker acceptance and adoption
• How to protect spend
• How to produce results that improve safety and the bottom line
• How to validate the hand protection choices in your safety program

 

Learning Objectives:

1. Use assessment and wear tests to validate glove choices: With so many glove choices available, it can be challenging to find the right glove for the application. Assessment and wear tests can help validate glove choices.
2. Focus on objective business improvements: The goal is to eliminate hand injuries, reduce the cost of ownership of hand protection, and standardize protection needs. This focus allows for objective business improvements.
3. Consider subjective attributes that improve productivity: Productivity can be improved by considering subjective attributes such as comfort, dexterity, and grip when selecting hand protection.
4. Quantify subjective factors to make them tangible: Subjective factors can be quantified to make them tangible and identify their value. This is particularly important when managing choices and changes in larger organizations.
5. Hand protection is a big part of the solution: While the right kind of hand protection cannot prevent all hand injuries, it is a big part of the solution. Hand injuries can result in lost time, and the right hand protection can reduce the risk of such injuries.