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Dry Working Hands are
Safe and Healthy Hands Assurance of Trouble Free Operations and
Quality
Over the last
decade, problems with Occupational Hygiene, Occupational Skin
Diseases (OSD), and uncontrollable growth of financial burden caused
by these problems became dominant factors that disproportionately
influence companies' performance virtually in every industry.
Experience
gaining by working with our customers clearly demonstrates that in
many cases wrong choices of protective gloves cause more harms than
goods. One of the typical examples is misapplication of latex and
nitrile gloves. Both of these products were made to protect hands
from direct and especially over-the-cuff penetration by liquids or
other substances while providing skin-tight fit. Their close-fitting
over the hand and especially over the cuff precludes any contact
with outer substances including air which is needed for normal
function of human skin. Lack of air exchange amplifies sweating and
bio-chemical reactions inside of the glove.
Industrial and protective gloves made of
rubber and synthetic resins presently utilized for hand
protection are the
major source of the problems, which takes roots in
self-contamination.
Self-contamination is a process in which
sweat produced by human hands inside of protective gloves, induced
by lack of air exchange and higher temperature inside of the gloves,
creates a “bacterial soup” that stimulates extensive bacteria
reproduction.
Use of textile
absorbent gloves in conjunction with plastic gloves became not only
costly but unsafe alternative, due to presence of residue from
chlorine, detergent, and resistant bacteria/fungi that continue to
survive and multiply inside of the textile
gloves.
Unfortunately,
the problem with self-contamination was never addressed, even though
it is by far the biggest contributor of microbial contamination and
OSD for the glove wearers.
The web pages 'Problems' and 'Solutions' describe problems associated
with utilization of protective gloves, methods we utilized in
solving these problems, and how all of that help to improve
companies operations.
Phone: 1- (585) 385-4945
Email: info@theptcdesign.com
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