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Can someone throw some light on procedures for testing safety belt and hand gloves before being put to use?
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Prads
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Prads
When you write on testing gloves, what, exactly, do you wish to test for?
Chris
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What could be the different tests on a safety gloves? Probably for abrasion/ puncture/ tear resistence????
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Prads
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Why do you want to re-test a suppliers conformity asssessment/tests.
For example, there are several European Standards for gloves, dependning opon the use of the golves and test invoved. All tests invariably require speciific test rigs etc, therefore you cannot carry out a "standard test" as per the specification unless you have set up the methoid/equipment/rig.
Thgere is a guide at the link below that gives some information on the Europena Standards and what the markings/information means:-
http://www.greenham.com/selectionguides/glove.pdf
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Just a word of caution!
Glove performance may vary considerably from the 'standard' depending upon the nature of the task and other factors. For example, the performance against cuts, abrasion, etc. may be affected by chemical contamination. Permeation breakthrough times against chemicals can vary enormously, particularly with mixtures. For example, one glove that showed permeation breakthrough time in excess of 240 minutes for each of toluene and methy ethyl ketone, but when mixed 1:1 the permeation breakthrough time was just 9 minutes! The task may also significantly affect performance. In one study that we did together with Sunderland University the permeation breakthrough in use for a nitrile glove for xylene (nominally 36 minutes) varied depending upon task from over 2 hours to just 5 minutes.
So published performance data is a useful start, but may not tell you what you will get in real life.
Chris
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