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Hello,
I am about to embark on a trial on a construction project of "Traffigloves". These gloves are categorised into either red amber or green depending on their cut resistance.
Has anybody ever undertaken a similar trial? Used this product before or seen it used on a project? Looking for some feedback on effectiveness and any percieved positives or negatives before i roll out my trial.
Look forward to hearing from you.
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One part of our group uses these gloves due to contracts with a large supermarket chain that request these at all times for all contractors etc
We only use ones to cover general handling of metal props and plastic hoarding but we are monitoring the use of them to see if they will benefit any other parts of the group medium to long term.
One major con with them is the very high cost and whether they are in fact value for money but again that is ongoing.
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I've not heard of them before, but as far as I can see from the web site it's just that they are a range of EN388 gloves, and their x1xx gloves are red, their x3xx gloves are amber and their x5xx gloves are green. It rather assumes that blade cut resistance is the critical factor in all glove selection (I don't think it is), and further that a significant proportion of their market are unable to read the second digit of the EN388 code and won't know that 5 is higher than 3 (but aren't colour blind)
Someone who can't understand the EN388 codes should not be selecting or specifying PPE, in my view.
They make no claims that their amber gloves are superior in protection to any other x3xx glove, do they?
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We use gloves with a cut protection factor of 3 or greater due to handling Metal Studs.
I got our supplier to come to site and explained what we do and he supplied some samples and we went with one glove as everyone involved said they were the most practical - they were mid-range regarding expense, but last at least five times longer than the cheap ones we used to use.
If you want the suppliers details let me know via a PM and I will forward his details to you.
Regards
Clive
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