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mimeatguy


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Just wondering how many companies require wearing mesh cutting glove. Safeway hounded me bout that and I resisted till I quit. I figure I've spent 30 yrs learning how not to cut myself it's a little late now! Also do you wear other type of gloves while cutting?  (cloth, rubber, latex or vinyl) Any other safety wear? (arm or wrist guards, belly guard etc.)

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wyatt


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I wear the three finger mesh. Harmons we have to wear them

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I think we're technically required to wear metal mesh gloves, but no one does, and no one says anything about not wearing them. The county requires us to wear plastic gloves, and we do, but most of use use cloth gloves underneath them. That helps with the small nicks you might get and it keeps your hands from getting cold, especially when cutting pork. Fortunately, no one ever cuts themselves. I'm sure if it ever happened it would be severe and they would crack down. I would raise hell about it if they did, just like those stupid anti-slip shoes. I know what's safe for me and I sure as hell don't need anyone telling me otherwise.

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jlarsen123


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I work for Marketplace IGA. We don't wear gloves in my room. I have a chain glove but I have yet to see anyone use it. I was taught without it and I'm glad.

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butcher29


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when i wqas at a corporate store they try to make me wear one i use to keep it on the block in case someone important came around ........i think those gloves make you careless........if i woree one then didnt care one i dont think i would be as causious as i am

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masteryeti


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Glove? What's a 'glove'.

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butcher29


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mesh glove

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I learned to cut bare handed, but after about 5 years worked at a place that supplied cloth gloves. Not safety gloves, but those (cotton?) ones. We'd go through hundreds each week. The linen supply company brought them. We didn't have rubber, vinyl, latex, etc. Just cloth and we used hundreds. They'd get wet and cold real fast, so we'd change them a lot. I do like a dry clean one when you have to buzz lots of pork loins. I feel that you get the best grip with a dry cloth glove. However, we knife our pork loins so that's a moot point for me. Also, my company doesn't supply cloth gloves.
I LOVE the vinyl gloves. Latex are a very distant second choice. We have both where I work. We all own safety  gloves. Some use them, I don't. With our full service counter, there's just too many customers, and I don't want to take it off and put it back on every 45 seconds.
When I work my days off at other companies, Safeway in particular, you MUST wear a cutting glove. I have a 3 finger steel mesh glove. I can't wear the dumb thing unless I do it this way: A cotton glove goes on first, then the steel glove, then on top of that, an extra large latex or vinyl. The cotton keeps me warm, the steel keeps me out of trouble, and the latex keeps the steel glove clean and keeps the slack in the glove from dangling out and getting in the way.


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I'm not a glove man either, to many years with out one, seen some cutters still get cut with them, cloth gloves the worse,

where I was require to wear one, I use to put some blood on table next to saw and lay mine in it so I could say I was using it, see how bloody it is.

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butcher29


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i use to make fun of the old guys and tell them they were a bunch of old ladys if they wore latex gloves cause they complain how cold the meat was.....i have turn in to one of those old ladys how ironic..lol..especiaslly pork i find extremly cold on my hands

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jlarsen123


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LOL....what's a glove?


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butcher29


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lol...he prob has alotta kids..lol

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kingofcubes


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I think cutting gloves are great, U can really fly when u don't have to worry about nicking yourself

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masteryeti


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I never worry about nicking myself...until I nick myself!!! LOL.

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Meat Monkey


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The cutting gloves are really unpopular with meat-cutters for some reason. I love mine. I'm with Kingofcubes, they help with speed. I find myself even using them as an "edge" when cutting thin boneless items like stir-fry. The only draw back is they're a pain to take on and off when you have to wait on customers.

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MeatGrady


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I have cut resistant glove and mesh glove, don't use either- ya can't grip things with your fingertips. I don't wear other types either. I can cut fast too!

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mimeatguy


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I totally agree you just don't have the dexterity for grabbing with that big cumbersome glove on. then taking it off all the time what a pain in the @%*#! What I wear and I have for many years and wouldn't have it any other way is cotton gloves with the latex over the top. Keeps the hands pretty comfy and you can slip em off in a second and have clean hands to answer phone or buzzer or whatever. No nicks, cuts, bone scratches, infections, dried out cracks from washing them so much. I've converted a few die hards over the years. Once you try them you don't want to go back to the old school way! To each their own tho. If you haven't tried this way try it you might really like it. Far as speed goes I'm as fast as anybody I've worked with I'll leave it at that.

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Under new safety regulation,the glove is soon to be here again.Even back in the day of hanging beef,you were supposed to wear them as you were more apt to cut yourself.Using block ready beef very seldnom do you cut your self.I believe it is to protect the store more than your self.Been at it for 32 years without glove and still got 10 fingers and 10 toes.lol



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jlarsen123


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Butcher29.......funnybiggrin Have you asked hoe many kids yet?



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butcher29


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lol no not yet

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Lady Cuts


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In Alberta if you dont wear a glove and cut yourself, you can be fined. Especially if its bad enough to lose time. But we have these great Kevlar gloves that feel just like a regular cotton glove. Keeps you warm. everyone who is taught at school is now required to learn with a glove, no excuses.

http://www.superiorglove.com/Kevlar_C21.html

Metal mesh gloves pull too much cold into your joints and promotes early arthritis. NO GOOD wink

 



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alive


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Hey there Lady cuts,what part of Alberta do you work in.Never heard of getting fine for not wearing gloves.Not that it isn't a bad idea.Must be a store policy?From southern Albertasmile



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kingofcubes wrote:

I think cutting gloves are great, U can really fly when u don't have to worry about nicking yourself


I can fly without them. I don't like mesh gloves.

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oi...I started with the *lovely* mesh glove...Not so bad on the kill floor but yeah I have to agree in the colder climate rooms the hand gets a tad chilled lol...However I was just informed startin monday we will also be extremely lucky hmm and now have to wear arm and belly guards...So does ANYONE know of a site sellin the mesh/metal aprons and the extended mesh gloves (I can't stand the lack of mobility the hard plastic guards give you)



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Lena wrote:

oi...I started with the *lovely* mesh glove...Not so bad on the kill floor but yeah I have to agree in the colder climate rooms the hand gets a tad chilled lol...However I was just informed startin monday we will also be extremely lucky hmm and now have to wear arm and belly guards...So does ANYONE know of a site sellin the mesh/metal aprons and the extended mesh gloves (I can't stand the lack of mobility the hard plastic guards give you)

 

 Are you in wholesale? If so, I think that's real cool.



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