How to do hand safety protection
Published: 2023-01-13 16:12:50
Hands are an important part of the human body, and many labor activities need to be completed by hands, which also makes hands the one with the highest proportion of injuries in various industrial accidents. In order to avoid or reduce this kind of injury, we often need to wear corresponding protective gloves in the labor process. Usually, hand injuries are mainly divided into four categories: mechanical injuries, physical injuries, chemical injuries, and biological infection injuries.
1. Mechanical injury Mechanical injury mainly includes impact, cutting, extrusion, acupuncture, vibration and so on.
2. Physical injuries Among the physical injuries, the most common ones are low temperature frostbite, high temperature scald, electric shock injury and ionizing radiation injury and so on.
3. Chemical injury Chemical injury refers to the injury caused by hand contact with chemical substances or chemical agents that are irritating to the skin.
4. Biological infection injury Biological infection injury refers to the destruction of human tissues and organs caused by the erosion and infection of the skin or wound of the hand by bacteria and other microorganisms unique to the workplace.
Although hand injuries are not life-threatening, they bring great pain to practitioners. Many people are permanently disabled, lose their ability to work and live, and bring great inconvenience and pain to life. Therefore, the protection of hands and arms is an important link in labor protection, and we should attach great importance to it.
To prevent hand injuries, it is necessary to choose to wear hand protective gear with different protective functions according to the specific injury factors in the production process. Of course, the hand protective gear mentioned here mainly includes protective gloves. When choosing protective gloves, you should not be blind, and you should make the most appropriate choice in combination with occupational characteristics and the characteristics of toxic and harmful substances that you may be exposed to.
