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If your industrial workplace involves heavy machinery, crushing hazards, and falling debris risk, standard work gloves can’t provide the hand protection you need. At RX-Safety, our line of impact gloves is designed and engineered to provide optimal protection against blunt force trauma.

Our gloves protect your hands and minimize your risk of debilitating worksite hand injuries.

Advanced Back-of-Hand Defense
Our gloves feature a specialized armor on the back of the hand — made of state-of-the-art materials like thermoplastic rubber (TPR) — that gives our impact gloves a flexible exoskeleton over your knuckles, fingers, and metacarpals.

This isn’t your standard foam padding. TPR absorbs and disperses impact energy away from the fragile bones and soft tissue in your hands. This “bumper” system dramatically reduces the intensity of harsh blows that would ordinarily cause serious injury, such as severe bruising, nerve damage, abrasions, or bone fractures. That includes impacts from tool recoil, falling objects, crush hazards, and pinch points.

Grip and Vibration Control
Protecting your hands doesn’t have to mean sacrificing dexterity or control. With reinforced palms, our impact safety gloves provide superior grip in even the oiliest, greasiest, and muddiest conditions. We also offer options with anti-vibration padding in the arm, which dampens the energy from pneumatic tools, impact wrenches, and other power tools, thereby helping prevent hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) from prolonged use.

Built for Tough Industries
High-hazard injuries require heavy-duty protection. Due to safety and compliance standards in the oil and gas, mining, construction, warehousing, transport, and heavy automotive manufacturing sectors, these industries require specific personal protective equipment (PPE) for workers. We offer a variety of International Safety Equipment Association/American National Standards Institute (ANSI/ISEA) impact-rated options to keep you both safe and compliant on the job site.

Your hands are your livelihood, and they deserve the utmost protection. Explore our line of anti-impact gloves and outfit yourself with the PPE you need to shield your hands, remain safe, and work with confidence.

Frequently Asked Questions

Impact levels correspond to the amount of impact energy the gloves can absorb. Level 1 works well for everyday construction tasks, while Level 3 provides maximum protection for high-hazard job sites, such as oil rigs.

Absolutely. Today’s TPR designs feature segmented construction at key joint areas, allowing for natural finger flexion so you can handle bolts and manipulate small tools without difficulty.

Several of our impact gloves incorporate cushioned palms that reduce vibration transmission from power tools. This helps lower your risk of developing hand-arm vibration syndrome.

Our professional-grade impact gloves use sonic welding or high-strength bonding methods that keep the protective elements securely attached, even when exposed to temperature extremes.

We offer several models with dual protection — for example, combining ANSI Impact Level 2 and ANSI Cut Level A4. It is, however, essential to review individual product specifications if your work involves sharp metal edges or glass.

Impact gloves are a mandated safety requirement if your work involves pinch points, crush hazards, falling objects, or heavy striking tools, like sledgehammers.

Most synthetic impact gloves tolerate cold-water washing on a gentle cycle and air-drying to strip away dirt and oil buildup while preserving the TPR armor.

We do! At RX-Safety, we stock multiple models featuring high-visibility colors and reflective details designed for roadwork and night-shift work.

Category Highlights

Understanding ANSI/ISEA 138 Impact Ratings

While shopping for the right impact gloves, look deeper than the armor’s appearance and verify their ANSI/ISEA 138 certification. This standard measures the glove’s force absorption capability across your knuckles and fingers. Level 1 provides basic protection for light-duty tasks, whereas Level 3 offers the maximum protection against severe hazards, such as high-pressure pipeline work or heavy demolition.

We categorize our glove selection by certification level, making it easy for you to match your PPE to the specific peak force risks on your work site and protect bones, tendons, soft tissues, and other structures from the highest-impact energy.

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