The electric vehicle revolution isn’t transforming just the types of cars on American highways and the parts used to build them.
It’s also driving modernization of personal protective equipment like gloves, not only for the automotive industry but an array of other professions.
While builders of internal combustion-powered vehicles needed nitrile gloves to protect their hands from potentially caustic fluids, technicians assembling and repairing electric vehicles rely on rubber insulating gloves and leather covers to avoid potentially debilitating shocks.
The catch is that they need to be able to use their fingers to position tiny parts and manipulate sensitive connections while wearing them—tasks the bulky safety gloves that have long dominated the market wouldn’t allow.
Ansell, the Iselin, N.J.-based safety solutions provider, came up with a game-changing solution that not only meets the EV industry’s needs but can enhance dexterity and potentially boost productivity for workers in fields from construction to utilities, construction and aerospace: the ActivArmr ultra-lightweight rubber insulated glove.
Introduced in January, the glove is 30% thinner than the PPE-maker’s legacy model and designed to fit like a second skin for wearers handling minuscule components.
It’s recommended for all users of Class 00 gloves, which are rated by the standards-setting organization ASTM to provide protection from charges of up to 500 volts of alternating current and 750 volts of direct current.
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“They can wear them while working on equipment, handling tweezers and small parts, and they don’t need to remove them to handle a pen or pencil or type on a keyboard, which might expose them to electrocution by the energized equipment around them,” says Janine Duda, regional portfolio product manager for Ansell.
While Ansell’s new rubber insulating gloves were designed with electric vehicle-makers in mind, they’re also tailor-made for industries from automotive repair and service to aerospace, construction and utilities, the company says.
The gloves, which are silicone free, are resistant to acid and extreme cold.
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