Standards
There are a number of different European standards that relate to gloves. These include:
- BS EN388- Mechanical hazards including Abrasion, cut, tear and puncture.
- BS EN388:2003 - Protective Against Mechanical Rist (Abrasion/Blade Cut Resistance/Tear Resistance/Abrasion Resistance)
- BS EN374-1:2003 Protective Against Chemical And Micro-Organisms
- BS EN374-2- Micro-organisms
- BS EN374-3- Chemicals
- BS EN420- General requirements for gloves includes sizing and a number of health and safety aspects including latex protein and chromium levels.
- BS EN60903- Electric shock
- BS EN407- Heat resistance
- BS EN511- Cold resistance
- BS EN1149- Antistatic
These exist to fulfill the PPE requirements.
PPE places gloves into three categories:
- Minimal risk - End user can easily identify risk. Risk is low.
- Complex design- Used situations that can cause serious injury or death.
- Intermediate - Gloves that don't fit into minimal risk or complex design categories.
Read more about this topic: Leather Glove
Famous quotes containing the word standards:
“The standards of His Majesty’s taste made all those ladies who aspired to his favour, and who were near the Statutable size, strain and swell themselves, like the frogs in the fable, to rival and bulk and dignity of the ox. Some succeeded, and others burst.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)