Spectra Supply was founded with a simple yet powerful mission: to provide quality, proper fitting hand protection for men and women, while giving back to the community.
If you have ever flipped a pair of work gloves over and seen something like `4X43C P` or `ANSI A4` stamped on the cuff, you have run into the two systems that govern hand protection on most job sites: EN 388 in Europe and ANSI/ISEA 105 in North America. Both exist to answer the same question — how much protection does this glove actually give my hands? — but they measure it in different units, on different scales, using partly different tests.
Nobody in the glove industry talks about pregnancy in the trades. No blog posts. No guides. No product pages. Pregnant tradeswomen are left to figure out on their own how their PPE needs to change, what chemical exposures matter more now than before, and whether the gloves they've been using are still adequate.
Most workers put on a pair of gloves at the start of the shift and take them off at the end: one glove, eight to ten hours, everything in between. The problem is that "everything in between" on a typical...
