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● Monitor and assess glove trials. ● Deliver product training to staff and distributors.
● Provide educational infographics and posters to encourage best practice in hand protection.
● Carry out ongoing support and site visits.
gloves on, wearers may think they feel tight. But within a couple of minutes, they adapt and move with the hand to feel nimble, sleek, and extremely comfortable. High stretch elasticity also ensures great shape retention and fit for the life of the glove so they won’t go baggy or loose.
This new RhinoYarn structure can be adapted to deliver a broad spectrum of cut levels without compromising the level of comfort or dexterity. This has enabled the range to be developed to offer cut protection from level B – F according to EN388:2016+A1:2018. Combined with a range of liner gauges from 13 gauge for the more robust tasks through to ultra-lightweight 18 gauge for fine tactility handling; there is a glove style to suit a wide number of working environments and sectors such as assembly and manufacturing to glass handling and metal stamping.
The 18-gauge 58-4325 is able to provide level D cut protection but at 16% lighter than a typical 18-gauge glove with this level of protection. It’s these marginal gains and improvements that aid acceptance and wearability, eliminating the temptation to remove gloves even for a second.
INCLUSIVITY Many styles in the Comfort+ range are available in sizes
When the above process is able to be followed, the key factors affecting glove selection, such as level of mechanical protection required, level of fine motor tactility needed, touchscreen requirement, oil present and so on, can be evaluated thoroughly.
Once the wearer needs are identified it is then a question of wearer acceptance.
“No alloy or mineral yarn results in increased comfort and dexterity whilst maintaining the level of cut protection.”
COMFORT+ When designing the new Comfort+ glove range,
Tilsatec’s product development team and yarn technologists spent a long time developing a new engineered composite yarn that could give incredible comfort and softness against the skin, but crucially still deliver high cut resistance because good mechanical protection shouldn’t mean compromising on fit and feel.
The new non-reinforced RhinoYarn is free from alloy and mineral yarns meaning no steel or fibre glass is present, removing the possibility of irritation to the skin. No alloy or mineral yarn results in increased comfort and dexterity whilst maintaining the level of cut protection.
It creates a smooth, close-to-skin, ergonomic fit as the knit structure molds to your hand. On first putting the
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5/XS – 12/3XL. Offering hand protection in a wide range of sizes ensures businesses can protect all employees. Proper fitting protective gloves for females in hazardous working environments are still underrepresented in the PPE industry which needs to be improved.
Eleanor Hirst, Marketing Manager at Tilsatec, said: “The new gloves have been very well received so far and demonstrate that with comfort as a primary focus in development, employing the latest fibres in yarn technology and understanding user needs, mechanical protection can be delivered at all levels without having to compromise on comfort, fit or feel and employees can be properly protected, engaging in a positive hand protection programme.”
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