SAFETY Gloves... For safety purposes the main design in the gloves were padding. It was important for padding material to help absorb some of the blow or strike to the opponent. For the padding material to work properly it would need to absorb energy by compressing. The more the padding compresses the more energy it could absorb but if it compressed too much, the padding would not be useful and would become a thin layer unable to properly absorb the blow... Oops that's boxing, not building, let's try again!
SAFETY Gloves..."A new campaign has been launched to raise health and safety awareness among migrant workers in the UK."... No that's not it either!
SAFETY Gloves ..."Working on a construction site can be hazardous, and hand injuries in particular continue to be a major problem - For who?
We need to encourage the wearing of protective gloves for the safety of the employee as well as good practice on the part of the employer - Q..who's we?
Whilst cuts (ranging from a small nick to the loss of fingers) will probably be the main injuries, bruises, grazes and skin damage from handling building materials and chemicals are also important.
We need to promote the use of gloves and a safe working environment in general."
That was posted by The British Glove Association - the way I am seeing all of this utter nonsense is, it's ‘marketing' a means to sell us something that we perhaps don't need or want - through scare-mongering?
Travelling as I do most days along the M25, M3 and the M4, I am often mumbling ‘Dick-head' when, stuck in the slow moving traffic, ‘Rodney' crawls past me in his beemer and draped across the passenger seat for us all to see, is his, multi-quilted, rain-off, Hi-Viz coat - not laying on the seat or stored in the boot but suspended on the seat back like a display (which of course is what it is) and to top it all, Rodders has placed his safety helmet, his riggers and goggles on the back shelf of his beemer, with the helmet's sticker ‘winking' at me as he ambles by - very trendy "Look at me. I'm a builder".
You don't insist that the electrician wears safety gloves, you don't insist that the plumber wears safety gloves or indeed the chippie or the dry liners or...bottom line - you simply recommend that anyone working with figure seven kerbs, cement, disclean along with anything else that might cause either impact injury, chemical reaction, nose-picking, arse -scratching etc should, to protect themselves from any potential injury, put their gloves on - most proficient building men (and Women), would do that automatically, without having to be told by some spotty clipboard waving office-boy that "it's the law".
I'm probably just being a Grumpy old Man here but, Communist-State or perhaps "We are in a state" compared to this particularly onerous ‘Nanny-State' is becoming a serious problem, not for those manufacturing and selling the endless ‘required' paraphernalia, but for the builder who, in order to just simply do the job, has to dress up like Darth Vader, because the ‘experts' say so?
