Keep Your Employees Hands-On with Glove Clips From Intrepid Industries

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a must have across a wide variety of industries, and many businesses perform internal audits to ensure that their employees are properly using and storing their PPE while on the job. However, one issue with PPE that many companies run into is that PPE tends to get overlooked by employees when it is not readily accessible.

There can be an attitude of, “I don’t want to run back and grab my gloves, so I’ll just do it real quick.” This type of attitude tends to create a more relaxed stance on safety among employees, and this problem can worsen over time, often resulting in on-the-job injuries.

Since workplace injuries can occur in any industry, business leaders always place the utmost importance on their employees’ health and safety, and it is essential to make sure that workers recognize this importance as well.

Furthermore, in industries like oil and gas, petrochemical, and automotive, there are often external assessments performed by third-party compliance auditors and government regulatory bodies. To keep your business up and running while avoiding fines and other types of penalties, business leaders need to provide all of the necessary PPE, as well as a means of keeping it handy at all times.

One way of doing this is with glove clips. Glove clips ensure that your employees will always have a way to keep their gloves on their person at all times. Glove clips can be secured to a belt, safety harness, or belt loops, and they allow workers to quickly access and store their gloves anywhere on the job.

What to Look for in a Glove Clip?

The type of glove clip you choose will depend on your specific set of needs. However, since glove clips are a rather straightforward safety product, they tend to have many similar features and capabilities among different models.

Here are some of the common features you will find in most high quality glove clips:

High-Visibility Colors and Wide Color Range

Although it is not always necessary, some businesses prefer using a glove clip that comes in a high-contrast color, such as safety orange or yellow. In cases where employees are working on machinery with moving parts or are around vehicles, having high-visibility PPE and accessories is important in the event that they become misplaced or lost.

Not only are high-visibility glove clips easier to find when you’re looking for them, but they are more easily noticeable when you aren’t.

However, some companies may not have the same safety concerns that high-visibility colors can address. For those companies, it is great to have several color options so that the glove clips they choose can match their company colors. Or better yet, even have custom imprinting with company logos and colors.

Breakaway Features

Glove clips are almost always made with a breakaway safety feature in the case that an employee’s gloves get caught on something. Many of our clients work with petrochem, oil, and gas. Gloves can be caught on ladder rungs, without a breakaway feature, this could cause the climber to fall. A breakaway feature prevents this.

This is especially important in industries where workers are around vehicles and machinery with moving parts. Glove clips with breakaway safety features allow workers to move away from safety hazards by exerting just a few pounds of pressure. The breakaway glove clip attachment will slip out of place, allowing the employee to move to safety. 

Resistant to Flex Fatigue

Glove clips also need to be resistant to wear and tear since they are constantly used throughout the day. Glove clips work by exerting pressure on the gloves they are holding to keep them in place, and the gloves are removed by bending the clip to free them up.

Eventually, lower grade clips will wear out from what’s known as “flex fatigue.” This is when the part of the clip that is flexed or bent wears out, and the material loses its strength.

High quality glove clips are designed to move like this frequently, and they are made from materials that are resistant to flex fatigue. This ensures that the glove clip will continue to be effective for much longer, reducing costs over time.

Memory Holding Materials

Since glove clips use pressure to hold gloves in place, it is important that glove clips are made from materials that hold their memory. In other words, glove clips should have a natural shape that they will revert back to when there is no pressure being applied.

This is a necessary feature to create an effective glove clip as this provides the needed tension to hold the gloves in place.

Non-Corrosive Materials

Corrosion, which is more commonly known as rust, is the process by which metal atoms undergo a chemical change to take on more stable chemical states known as “oxides.” This typically occurs when metal atoms are exposed to oxygen and moisture from their environment. However, corrosion can also occur when atoms are exposed to certain chemicals in the workplace.

Glove clips used to be made from metal but issues arose with corrosion and electrical conductivity that made the glove clips more of a hazard than a safety feature. That’s why glove clips are no longer made with metal. They’re made with engineering grade plastic that will not rust, even when they are subjected to corrosive substances.

Non-Conductive Materials

High quality glove clips should also be non-conductive. There are very specific regulatory requirements when it comes to PPE for employees who can be exposed to high amperage currents while on the job, and their glove clips are no exception to these rules.

Tradespeople like electricians and electrical line workers require special safety equipment and tools to keep them grounded and insulated from electrical currents. Anything that is hanging from their person can present an additional risk if it is made from a conductive material.

Non-conductive glove clips are a better safety choice for any employee, whether they regularly work with electrical components or could come across a situation where they may be exposed to electricity.

Metal Detectable Materials

In some industries, especially those that are regulated by the FDA, using metal detectable PPE is a requirement. When lost or misplaced PPE makes its way into a production line, it can contaminate products and pose risks to the health and safety of both customers and employees.

Metal detectable glove clips can easily be detected in a production line that incorporates metal detection in its safety measures because the polymers are impregnated with small metal particles.

High quality metal detectable glove clips will alert employees during these kinds of quality checks, while also retaining their non-corrosive and non-conductive properties.

Impact Resistant Materials

PPE is a long-term investment in the safety of employees and the overall productivity of a company, which is why it is important to use safety equipment that is resilient and long-lasting.

Impact resistant glove clips can withstand everyday wear and tear because they are made from high grade polymers that retain their strength and shape.

Temperature Resistant Materials

In many cases, employees can be exposed to varying temperatures throughout the course of a normal day. These kinds of employees require PPE that can withstand changes in temperature while maintaining the characteristics that allow them to function properly.

Low quality plastics tend to become brittle when exposed to cold temperatures, causing them to break or snap when pressure is applied. Conversely, the same low grade plastics will lose their strength and shape when exposed to higher temperatures.

Glove clips should be able to retain all of the properties that make them functional and diverse, even when they are frequently exposed to moderate heat and cold.

Glove Clips from Intrepid Industries

Glove clips include most of these characteristics across every glove clip model. All glove clips are made from engineer grade plastic made in the U.S.A.

Glove Guard® Clip The Glove Guard® Clip is the only model that is metal detectable, which is what sets it apart from the others. The Glove Guard® Clip also features a 15-pound breakaway attachment that will prevent employees from getting caught or snagged on moving parts.

The Glove Guard® Clip also comes in twelve different colors, including high-visibility safety colors. It has interlocking teeth on both ends that allow it to be attached to almost anything the employee is wearing, such as safety belts and harnesses, belt loops, and pockets.

Handi Klip®

The Handi Klip® style glove clip found at Intrepid Industries, comes in 8 different colors that range from black and maroon to high visibility tones. The Handi Klip® also has interlocking teeth at both ends, which makes it similar to the Glove Guard in its attachment capabilities.

What makes the Handi Klip® unique is its ball and socket breakaway feature. This breakaway feature allows the Handi Klip® to be reassembled after breaking away. It also won’t melt in high temperatures.

Although the Handi Klip is designed to come apart, it doesn’t sacrifice strength to achieve this capability. With 20-pound breakaway resistance, the Handi Klip will hold strong when needed while easily allowing employees to pull it apart in the case of a safety incident.

Utility Guard®

The Utility Guard® is similar in its design to the Glove Guard®, featuring a virtually identical lower half. What makes the Utility Guard® different from the Glove Guard® is its upper attachment design.

The Utility Guard® features a belt clip that can fit on a belt up to two inches wide. It can be attached vertically to waist belts and utility belts, or it can be attached horizontally to shoulder straps on a tool belt or safety harness.

The Utility Guard® also features a 15-pound breakaway attachment that allows employees to retreat to safety if the clip is caught or snagged.

Stay Safe with Intrepid Industries

All glove clips can be customized with a logo or safety slogan when ordered in quantities of 50 glove clips or more. Additionally, all glove clips orders are eligible for bulk pricing discounts, so the more you order the more you save!

In addition to glove clips, Intrepid Industries offers a wide range of industrial safety products that help prevent workplace accidents from turning into workplace injuries. Product lines include scaffolding accessories, drop prevention accessories, safety gates, safety hooks, and more!

Here at Intrepid Industries, we know that you value your employees’ health and safety above all else, which is why all of our products are made from high quality materials that meet and surpass industry standards. And to ensure that we can consistently meet all of the highest quality standards, we manufacture all of our safety products right here in the United States.

Do you have a specific safety concern that you can’t find the right solutionfor? Because we manufacture all of our products in our own facility, we can create customized safety solutions that fit your individual needs!

If you have any questions about our products or about a specific safety concern, you can reach out to our experienced safety experts by phone or online. Click here to get in touch with Intrepid Industries today!