GLOVE AUDITS AND PPE RISK ASSESSMENTS FOR HAND SAFETY
Understanding whether your hand protection is effective starts with identifying the risks your teams face and how gloves are used in practice.
Our glove audits and PPE risk assessments provide a structured way to review your working environment, assess task-specific hazards, and evaluate whether the gloves being used are suitable for the job. By combining a workplace PPE assessment with a detailed glove audit, you can move beyond assumptions and make decisions based on how work is actually carried out.
This helps you identify gaps in protection, improve consistency, and select gloves that better match the risks involved.
In a typical workplace PPE assessment, this includes:
Reviewing tasks across different roles to understand how work is carried out
Identifying hazards such as cuts, impact, or heat exposure
Understanding where current protection may not fully reflect the risks involved
This provides the foundation for making informed decisions about glove selection and ensures that any changes are based on real working conditions, not assumptions.
FROM PPE RISK ASSESSMENT TO GLOVE AUDIT
Once you understand the risks your teams face, the next step is evaluating how well your current hand protection performs in those conditions. This is where our glove audits build on your PPE risk assessment, moving from identifying hazards to assessing how gloves are used in practice.
As part of this process, we:
Review how your teams are using gloves day to day so we can understand how protection is applied across different tasks
Assess whether current gloves match the risks identified based on how work is actually carried out
Identify gaps between risk and protection where gloves may not be delivering the required performance
Recommend more suitable glove solutions that better reflect the task, environment, and level of riskWe provide guidance on glove selection based on the task, risk, and working conditions
By connecting risk assessment with real-world evaluation, this approach gives you a clearer path from identifying hazards through to improving protection.
HOW THE GLOVE AUDIT PROCESS WORKS
Following a PPE risk assessment, our glove audits apply a structured process to evaluate how well your current hand protection performs in real working conditions.
1. Understanding your working environment
We review how your operation is set up and where gloves are used across different roles and tasks
2. Assessing tasks and associated risks
We look at the work being carried out to identify hazards such as cuts, impact, or heat exposure
3. Evaluating current
glove use
We assess the gloves currently in use to understand how they are performing in practice
4. Recommending appropriate solutions
We provide guidance on glove selection based on the task, risk, and working conditions
This process builds on your workplace PPE assessment, giving you a clear path from identifying risks through to improving glove performance and protection.
HOW A GLOVE AUDIT IMPROVES SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE
When hand protection is reviewed in a structured way, it becomes easier to identify where changes will have the most impact. Our glove audits are designed to give you practical outcomes you can act on.
What you can expect:
- Better alignment between tasks and protection so the gloves being used match the risks involved in each activity.
- Improved consistency across teams by standardising glove use across roles and sites.
- Reduced risk of hand injuries by addressing gaps in protection across your operation.
- More effective glove use in practice as gloves suited to the task are more likely to be worn correctly and consistently.
These improvements support safer working environments while helping you make more informed decisions about glove selection and use.
SUPPORTING SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS IN PRACTICE
Improving hand protection is rarely about a single change. It comes from understanding how work is carried out, identifying where protection falls short, and making informed adjustments. This is the same approach used across many real-world applications, where reviewing tasks, evaluating glove performance, and testing alternatives leads to better outcomes.
In practice, this can result in:
- More consistent glove use across teams as solutions better reflect how work is actually carried out
- Improved alignment between risk and protection by matching gloves more closely to specific tasks
- Greater confidence in glove selection through testing and evaluation in real working conditions
These are the types of improvements that structured glove reviews are designed to support.
A glove audit gives you a clear way to start that conversation.
- When you’re reviewing an existing account
You can use an audit to identify gaps in protection and highlight where improvements can be made
- When introducing new products
You’re able to base recommendations on how gloves perform in the customer’s environment, not just on specification
- When supporting long-term relationships
You can provide ongoing value by helping customers review and improve their approach to hand protection over time
By grounding recommendations in real tasks and working conditions, glove audits make it easier to move from initial discussion through to trials and wider adoption.
BOOK A GLOVE AUDIT FOR YOUR OPERATION
A glove audit gives you a clear way to assess how your current hand protection is performing and where improvements can be made. By reviewing your environment, evaluating glove use, and testing products in real conditions, you can make more informed decisions about safety and consistency.
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A glove audit is a structured review of how hand protection is used across your operation. We assess your working environment, the tasks your teams carry out, and the gloves currently in use to identify where improvements can be made. This helps you ensure that protection is aligned with real risks, rather than relying on assumptions or product specifications alone.
A PPE risk assessment is a structured review of the tasks your teams carry out and the hazards they are exposed to. We look at factors such as materials, tools, and working conditions to identify risks like cuts, impact, or heat. This helps you understand what level of protection is required before selecting gloves or making changes to your current approach.
Our glove audits follow a structured process that builds on a PPE risk assessment. We review your environment, assess task-specific risks, evaluate current glove use, and recommend more suitable solutions. This ensures that decisions are based on both hazard identification and real-world performance.
PPE audit services are designed to review how personal protective equipment is used within a workplace and whether it is appropriate for the risks involved. Our focus is specifically on hand protection, providing a more detailed assessment of glove use. This allows you to identify gaps, improve consistency, and make more informed decisions about the gloves your teams rely on.
A PPE risk assessment focuses on identifying hazards and understanding the level of protection required for each task. A glove audit builds on this by evaluating how gloves are used in practice and whether they perform effectively in real working conditions. Together, they provide a complete approach to improving hand safety, from identifying risks through to selecting and testing the right gloves.
A glove audit helps ensure that the protection your teams are using matches the risks they face in day-to-day work. By identifying gaps in protection and reviewing how gloves are used in practice, you can reduce the likelihood of hand injuries and improve overall safety performance. This is particularly important in environments where tasks vary and risks are not always obvious.
After a glove audit, you will have a clearer understanding of where improvements can be made. This often leads to testing alternative gloves in your own environment, allowing you to assess performance before making wider changes. From there, you can move towards standardising glove use and improving consistency across teams based on real-world results.
A risk assessment is typically the starting point, as it helps identify the hazards your teams are exposed to. Our glove audits then build on this by assessing how well your current gloves perform against those risks. In practice, both elements work together, giving you a structured way to move from identifying risks through to improving protection and consistency.
A glove audit supports injury reduction by ensuring that gloves are matched to the risks involved in each task. When protection is aligned with how work is carried out, and gloves are used consistently, exposure to common hazards such as cuts, impact, or heat can be reduced. This forms part of a wider approach to improving hand safety across your operation.
The duration of a glove audit depends on the size of your operation and the number of tasks being reviewed. Rather than applying a fixed timeframe, we focus on carrying out a thorough assessment of your environment, tasks, and current glove use to ensure the recommendations are relevant and practical for your teams.
Testing gloves after an audit is an important step in confirming that the recommended products perform as expected in your environment. Trials allow you to assess comfort, durability, and usability during real tasks, helping ensure that the selected gloves will be used consistently and deliver the intended level of protection.
If you are working with customers, glove audits provide a structured way to review their current approach to hand protection and identify areas for improvement. This helps you move conversations beyond product supply and towards practical solutions based on real tasks. It also creates opportunities for trials and longer-term engagement.
If you want to understand more about selecting the right gloves, Traffi provides a range of resources covering glove types, risks, and real-world applications.
