Interlaboratory evaluation of gloves designed to reduce exposure to hand-arm vibration Abstract Many authors have described the pathological effects resulting from the use of vibrating manual tools such as pneumatic drills, grinders and drills. They group problems of a vascular, neurological and musculoskeletal nature. Antivibration gloves, made of resilient materials such as rubber, neoprene or polyurethane, are one possible means of reducing worker exposure to hand-arm vibration. The publication in 1996 of international standard ISO 10819, which defined a method for the laboratory evaluation of such gloves, revealed problems of measurement reproducibility. In 1998, the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) in England launched an interlaboratory evaluation program to determine the origin of these variations and to modify the standard, if need be. At the same time, the IRSST implemented its own series of tests.It was in this context that four types of antivibration gloves were evaluated in three different laboratories by applying the method prescribed in ISO 10819. The report describes the results of these evaluations and compares them to those obtained in the 1998 English study. Produced Under this Project Scientific Reports Interlaboratory evaluation of gloves for reducing hand-arm vibration exposure Research Report: R-340 Scientific Publications An interlaboratory evaluation of the vibration transmissibility of gloves following the ISO 10819 test methodBoileau P.-É., Rakheja S., Boutin J.Source : Canadian Acoustics/Acoustique canadienne, vol. 29, no 3, 2001, p. 18-19Critical evaluation of a laboratory test procedure for measuring the vibration transmissibility of glovesBoileau P.-É., Boutin J., Rakheja S., Dong R.Source : In Proceedings of the 37th UK Conference on Human Responses to Vibration (Loughborough, United Kingdom, September 18-20, 2002), 2002, p. 106-117Évaluation de l'efficacité des gants antivibratilesBoutin J., Boileau P.-É.Source : in Des SSTratégies... pour des résultats durables : 26e congrès de l’Association québécoise pour l’hygiène, la santé et la sécurité du travail / AQHSST, (26e : 5-7 mai, 2004 : Montréal, Canada), CD-ROM, 2004, 9 pInvestigating the relationship in vibration transmissibility characteristics of resilient materials and gloves using standardized test methodsBoileau P.-É., Boutin J.Source : in Actes du 9e Congrès international sur les vibrations mains-bras, (9e : 5-8 juin, 2001 : Nancy, France), Note scientifique et technique de l'INRS, NS 242, février 2004, p. 397-405 Additional Information Type: Project Number: 0099-1000 Status: Completed Year of completion: 2003 Research Field: Mechanical and Physical Risk Prevention Team: Paul-Émile Boileau (IRSST)