Hand safety is always a top concern. But hand injuries need not be sudden or traumatic. They can happen over time and are just as likely to occur at a keyboard or cash register as at a grinding wheel.

When you’re blindly venturing into undiscovered terrain, how do you keep your workers safe?

That’s a question global nanotechnology companies — and the institutes, regulators and government bodies that work alongside them — are currently struggling with.

Proper selection of safety gloves is the result of a process that takes into consideration many criteria — from level of protection and durability to hand shape and breathability. Yet, while the process seems complicated, the goal is straightforward: to provide the worker with gloves that combine functionality with as much protection as possible.

A 28-day labour dispute involving whether corrections officers could wear safety vests at their own discretion at the Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre (HWDC) in Hamilton is over.