We tend to think of impact work gloves as something you see on oil rigs or construction sites, where heavy duty impacts and blows are common. But almost any manufacturing process involves some type of rough work that can bump or bruise workers’ hands.
Traditional impact gloves have historically meant a glove covered with a solid, thick slab of polymer such as Thermo Plastic Rubber (TPR). These gloves tended to be a bulky, hot, compliance headache – but they were necessary for some very rough jobs (like on that oil rig) with high risks for heavy blows, crushes or pinches. The advent of new impact glove technologies and designs mean that both heavy and light duty jobs can use impact gloves to keep hands safer from injury while keeping the wearer more comfortable.