Posted By Robert K Lewis I get the feeling the gloves are winning the day. Bob

Posted By Brett Day I've got to admit that I wear gloves on site, the cotton / kevlar type with nitrile palms purely because it keeps my hands clean (one of my first times on site stuck my hand in concrete on a stair handrail and also helps keep them warm this time of year whilst giving enough dexterity to handle things. Mind you, slightly off topic I dress for site when going - my own PPE and warm comfy clothing. Always funny / strange seeing visitors to site in suits, ties and gucci shoes, what do they expcect on a construction site???

Posted By Pete48 Here's a thought for all you worthy constructionalists. Blanket site rule for wearing gloves causes an entrapment injury. Contractor states that their safe working practice states that gloves should not be worn whilst....however on several site inspections their staff were instructed to wear their gloves at all times because it is a site rule. Or a group of glass installers who were instructed that their fingerless gloves were not suitable or satisfactory becuase the site rules required full protection due to the level of cuts to fingers on site. They were told to wear full gloves resulting in both a manual handling injury and serious cuts. Oh yes it could and oh yes it has. Now where is the gold to be found? Blanket rules just cover everyone with the same blanket. They do little in the long run to improve safety attitudes, in fact they usually have the opposite effect. We only have to consider the history of the hard hat in Construction to see why this approach is being taken . I do not wish to criticise individuals but I have to agree it is bonkers conkers in the final analysis. It is papering over the real issue of changing attitudes within the industry by trying to directly force a behaviour. And it fails more than it succeeds; short term gains soon disappear. Just look next time you pass a site with all those wonderful notices and exhortations in glorious technicolour at the entrance to the "promised land". If you want to encourage visitors to wear gloves then advise them that is the way you like to do it and why; then invite them to consider doing the same. Co-operation not confrontation. If constant hand protection really is required (as part of the overall site assessments) then surely you must have a method to resolve any potential conflict with 3rd party assessments.