360applied® - Hand Protection Program

The 360applied Hand Protection Program contains the following components

A Force in the Safety Industry

Workplace hazards are commonplace. Injury and illness are very expensive to businesses, costing the Australian economy an estimated $62 billion^ each year. Identifying hazards is the critical component of PPE selection and can reduce a business’s expenditure significantly. Hazards that may be encountered include mechanical, biological, chemical, heat, cold and abrasive surfaces. If these cannot be removed from the workplace, the risk of injury can be substantially minimised through the correct selection of PPE, ensuring the job can be completed safely.

As a market leading designer and manufacturer of personal protective equipment, Force360® is at the forefront of delivering innovative products and services to various industries around Australia. To manage wearer safety is to manage the correct use of personal protective equipment by ensuring its suitability for the specific application. The 360applied™ program helps tailor the PPE selection to your business, providing task specific solutions for your employees.

Hand Protection Presentation

Force360’s range of hand protection has now been available in Australia for several years and encompasses the exclusive Graphex® glove range, which incorporates Graphene in its construction.Mining, infrastructure, construction, and the oil and gas sectors are just a few who have seen the benefits of Force360 gloves. 360applied has formalised this opportunity so that all businesses and industries across Australia can experience and understand the advantages and benefits of using the Force360 hand protection range.

A visit to site by 360applied showcases the range through a simple but effective presentation that not only outlines these advantages but culminates in a cut demonstration, where required, to simulate real life cut scenarios and comparesthe performance to the gloves that are currently being used on site. The tailored presentation covers several key areas:

  • The Force360 Hand Protection Range
  • Advantages of using a Force360 glove
  • The Graphex Superior Cut Protection Range
  • Abrasion, Cut, Tear & Puncture - how does Graphex compare?
  • How Graphex gloves can benefit your workplace
  • Our onsite cut machine demonstrates
  • Graphex gloves protection levels against traditional cut resistant gloves

Standards & Certification

360applied understands that hand protection standards are ever changing and are often not fully understood by some.

The 360applied program steps employees and employers through the standards in simple language that ensures understanding so that the standard can be effectively applied to actual tasks being performed in the workplace.

360applied Standards and Certification presentation covers the following:

  • The differences and similarities between European and Australian Standards
  • The meaning and significance behind the performance scores. What does Level F mean?
  • What protection does it actually give in real terms?
  • What symbols to look for and a simple explanation of them – so many gloves today have unclear, multiple or confusing symbols
  • What is a certified product and what is a compliant product?
  • How to ensure your hand protection is certified
  • Certification in Australia and why it should be mandatory

Site Audit

360applied offers an onsite hand protection audit service. This free service is conducted by our Hand Protection Specialists who will analyse, review and provide a full comprehensive report on the current hand protection being used onsite. The report will, where necessary, make recommendations to offer alternative products that will increase wearer safety, improve productivity, and offer solutions for potential issues like grip, dexterity and comfort for the wearer. Furthermore, the report will look at current usages and expenditure in order to offer a hand solution package that employees and the business itself can benefit from.

Key areas of the site audit are:

  • In depth analysis of the application in situ, to gain a comprehensive understanding of the glove’s function and requirements
  • Formalise mechanical, biological and chemical hazard identification to ensure appropriate protection levels to all relevant Australian Standards are always maintained
  • Employee engagement - a critical component is to gain insight from the wearer of the gloves. Identification of current limitations and issues along with potential improvements is invaluable information
  • A risk analysis matrix is structured based upon historical data, the potential severity of an injury, and its likelihood of occurrence. Appropriate hand protection recommendations can then be made

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