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How a new technology is setting the standard for hand protection

January 17, 2021

As part of efforts to reduce the injury toll, ANSI/ISEA 138, the American national standard for performance and classification for impact resistant hand protection, was published in March 2019.

Interpreting ANSI/ISEA 138: 2019 glove impact results explained

Rodney Taylor

July 14, 2020

The ANSI/ISEA 138:2019 standard fills a critical gap in the industrial glove standards infrastructure. One question often asked by end-users is: what performance level is appropriate for application needs?

2020 Readers' Choice Awards Winners: Best PPE, safety equipment products

ISHN Magazine recognizes the most innovative personal protection equipment and occupational health and safety products of 2020

July 14, 2020

Thousands of ISHN subscribers voted online for the most innovative personal protection equipment (PPE) and occupational health and safety products, and now the results of ISHN's 2020 Readers' Choice Awards are in!

Five tips for health and safety managers to better protect workers’ hands

Bill VanMullekom

June 7, 2020

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost 120,000 injuries to hands and fingers in 2016 involved days away from work – 13 percent of the total injury toll.

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Get your hands on the right safety gloves

Safety gloves, correctly sized and engineered with the correct materials, defend workers from virtually any type of hazard

Carrie Halle

April 1, 2020

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, injuries to hands accounted for nearly 25 percent of all lost-time industrial injuries - a total of 110,000 annually. Seventy percent of those injuries resulted when an employee was not wearing safety gloves, while the other 30 percent of hand injuries occurred while an employee was wearing the wrong kind of gloves.

Protective Industrial Products, Inc. expands salesforce in Latin America

March 11, 2020

Protective Industrial Products, Inc. (“PIP”), a supplier of hand protection and general safety products, announces the expansion of its salesforce in Latin America.

Now you can feel the SW difference digitally

February 19, 2020

SW Safety, the leader in premium performance hand protection announced that they have pressed command-S for the final time and gone live with the new www.swsafety.com website. The new site, designed from the ground-up, is one of the final steps of implementing the company’s brand refresh that was enthusiastically received at the NSC Show last year.

Advances in hand protection

What to expect as the new decade unfolds

Donald F. Groce

February 4, 2020

As a new decade rolls into our world, will there be any new significant developments in safety, particularly in hand protection that will provide an even safer work environment than the past decade?

Hand protection “preventative tech“

Corenne Taylor

February 4, 2020

We have gradually come to depend on cell phones and their apps for more and more information about our daily lives. The latest trend seems to be health monitoring that allows the average person to keep an eye on their vital stats. The future of hand protection is moving in much the same direction.

Real-world glove use: Cut-resistant test results can be misleading

Kwan Lo

February 4, 2020

In considering very cheap cut-resistant gloves we may well be led to wonder, how could these supposedly hi-tech gloves be so cheap, and are they real or fake? Having been involved in the PPE glove industry for many years, I believe the truth lies somewhere in between.