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Safety Gloves Attributes

Safety gloves is usually the highest-SKU-count line in a PPE catalog: coated knit, cut-resistant, chemical immersion, disposable exam, leather driver, welding, impact-back and electrical insulating, all hanging off one category tree. Buyers are EHS managers writing a hand-protection standard, maintenance planners restocking a crib, and vending/VMI programs pulling straight off the filter rail.

The data is hard because the standards moved and the suppliers didn't. ANSI/ISEA 105 replaced its 0-5 cut scale with A1-A9 bands on the ASTM F2992 TDM-100 method in 2016, then revised again in 2024. EN 388 went from a four-digit code to a six-character string in 2016. A distributor carries both vintages on the same shelf, and the ratings live in certification PDFs, not the price file.

Then variants. One glove is six to eight sizes across two or three coating colors, sold by the pair, the dozen pair, the bag and the case. Sizes arrive as L, 9, L/9 and Large from four suppliers in the same aisle.

Core

Every SKU needs these. Without them the record is not a product, it is a row.

Glove Type
enum
Coated knit glove

Top-level split that decides which standard applies at all. A disposable exam glove and a welding gauntlet share no comparable spec.

Size (Alpha / Numeric)
enum
L (9)

Hand protection is fit-critical; a loose glove is a snag hazard. Buyers order a size run, not a size, so every size needs its own sellable record.

Shell / Liner Material
enum
HPPE with glass fiber

Drives cut performance, launderability and allergen exposure. Glass-fibre and steel-cored shells also explain an X in the EN 388 coup position.

Shell Gauge
number · gauge (needles/in)
18

Higher gauge means thinner yarn and better dexterity at the same cut level. 18-gauge vs 13-gauge is the trade-off buyers argue about.

Coating Material
enum
Foam nitrile

Determines grip in oil, abrasion life and chemical splash tolerance. Nitrile, PU, latex and PVC are not interchangeable on a wet line.

Coating Coverage
enum
Palm and fingers

Palm-only, palm-and-fingers, 3/4 dip and full coat behave differently on liquid contact and breathability. A common cause of wrong-part returns.

Cuff Style
enum
Knit wrist

Knit wrist, safety cuff, gauntlet and slip-on decide donning speed and whether debris enters. Safety cuff is mandated on some plant floors.

Total Glove Length
number · in (mm)
9.75 in (248 mm)

Immersion and welding buyers filter on length, not cuff style. 14 in vs 18 in is the difference between a sleeve gap and no gap.

Selling UOM / Pack Configuration
text
12 PR/BG, 12 BG/CS (144 PR)

The same glove sells by the pair, dozen pair, bag and case. Wrong UOM on the line means a customer orders 12 pairs and receives 144.

Manufacturer Part Number
identifier
11-539

The only key that reliably joins your record to the supplier's certification PDF and price file. Brand + MPN is how buyers cross-reference.

Differentiating

What buyers actually compare on. This is where catalogs win or lose the filter.

ANSI/ISEA 105 Cut Level
enum
A4 (per ANSI/ISEA 105-2024)

The first filter a North American EHS buyer touches. A1-A9 bands under ASTM F2992 (TDM-100); the hand-protection standard is written in these terms.

EN 388:2016+A1:2018 Rating
text
4X42C

The European and multinational equivalent. Six characters, not four: abrasion, coup cut, tear, puncture, ISO 13997 cut letter, optional P for impact.

ANSI/ISEA 138 Impact Level
enum · kN (mean transmitted force)
Level 2 (MTF <=6.5 kN)

Separate certification from cut. Oil & gas, mining and demolition buyers filter impact first, then cut. Levels 1-3 by mean transmitted force.

Touchscreen Capable
boolean
Yes - thumb, index, middle

Every tech in the field carries a tablet. Buyers filter on it, and pulling a glove off to sign a work order is the incident nobody logs.

Compliance & identifiers

Standards, regulatory data, and the identifiers channels reject you for missing.

EN ISO 374-1:2016 Type & Chemical Codes
text
Type B (JKL)

Type A/B/C plus the code letters name which chemicals were actually tested. 'Chemical resistant' with no code letters is not a spec.

PPE Regulation (EU) 2016/425 Category
enum
Category II

Category II and III require notified-body certification; III adds ongoing surveillance. Needed to sell into the EU/UK and to issue a DoC.

GTIN-14 / UPC
identifier
UPC-12 at bag, GTIN-14 at case

Required by every marketplace and data pool and by GS1-driven customer procurement. A missing GTIN blocks the listing before anyone reads the spec.

Country of Origin
enum
Sri Lanka

Customs, TAA/BAA public-sector eligibility, and tariff exposure. Buyers on federal and utility contracts filter on it directly.

The fields that aren't in the schema at all

What most safety gloves catalogs are missing.

The table above is the schema most catalogs already have. These are the attributes that usually aren't in it — each one surfaced by a signal from the live market rather than by an audit of what's already there. This is what Anglera's Schema Foundry does on a real catalog, in this category.

Search signal
+ Silicone-Free Declaration

Automotive and aerospace paint-shop buyers search 'silicone free gloves' and land on nothing. The claim exists in a supplier technical bulletin, never as a catalog field.

Paint-line and coatings accounts spec silicone-free by policy. With no field to filter or certify against, the RFQ goes to whoever can answer it in writing.

Competitor signal
+ ANSI/ISEA 105 Needlestick Puncture Level

ANSI/ISEA 105 reports needlestick puncture separately from probe puncture. Catalogs publish one 'puncture' number, so buyers cannot tell which test it came from.

Sanitation, medical waste and recycling contracts spec needlestick performance explicitly. One ambiguous puncture number gets the SKU cut from the bid list.

Supplier signal
+ Permeation Breakthrough Time by Chemical

The EN 16523-1 breakthrough grid, chemical by chemical in minutes, is a table inside the supplier's chemical resistance guide PDF. The catalog page carries the Type letter and nothing else.

A buyer with a named solvent cannot self-serve and calls instead. Worse, a Type A glove never tested against their chemical ships and fails in service.

Competitor signal
+ Food Contact Compliance (FDA 21 CFR 177 / EU 1935/2004)

Food-processing distributors expose a food-contact filter. General industrial catalogs carry the same SKUs with the compliance statement sitting in a datasheet footnote.

Food plant and commissary accounts cannot buy without the declaration on file. The line moves to a food-service specialist distributor and takes the crib with it.

Supplier signal
+ Rating Edition / Test Report Date

Two datasheets for the same MPN show 'Level 4' and 'A4' because they were issued under different editions of ANSI/ISEA 105. Nothing in the catalog records which edition applies.

You cannot prove the published cut level is current. Re-tested and stale SKUs look identical on the page, and a customer audit lands on the wrong number.

How Schema Foundry finds these

Messy in, governed out.

The same value, spelled every way safety & PPE suppliers spell it. A filter only works once they agree.

Size
LLarge9L/9Size 9LG
L (9)

EN ISO 21420 sizing is numeric 6-11; US suppliers ship alpha. Buyers filter alpha and confirm numeric, so the record needs both.

ANSI/ISEA 105 Cut Level
A4ANSI A4Cut Level 4Level 4A-44
A4

A bare 'Level 4' is ambiguous: pre-2016 ANSI/ISEA 105 used a 0-5 CPPT scale, so it is not the same measurement as A4.

Coating Material
Nitrile FoamFoam NitrileMicro-Foam NitrileMicroFoam NitrileNitrile (foam)NFT
Foam nitrile

Six spellings from four suppliers fragment the coating facet into six single-SKU buckets, so the filter looks empty and gets ignored.

EN 388 Rating
4X42C4 X 4 2 CEN388: 4X42C4X42CP4542
4X42C

Four digits with no letter is EN 388:2003 legacy, not a current rating. The P suffix is a separate impact claim and needs its own field.

What buyers ask

Every one of these should be answerable from the attributes above. If it isn't, that's a gap.

  • Is that A4 rated under the 2016 test or the 2024 one?
  • Why does this say 4X42C - what happened to the cut number?
  • Does the coating go over the fingertips or just the palm?
  • Is this glove silicone-free? We can't have it near the paint booth.
  • How many minutes before 40% sodium hydroxide breaks through?
  • Am I ordering this by the pair, the dozen pair, or the case?
  • Does your L run like a men's large or an EN size 9?
  • Is the 14 inches measured from the fingertip or from the wrist?

What channels require

The same SKU, different mandatory fields per destination.

Grainger, MSC & Fastenal line-card setup
Glove TypeSize (alpha + numeric)Coating Material & CoverageANSI/ISEA 105 Cut LevelSelling UOM / pack breakCountry of Origin
Amazon Business (Safety & PPE)
GTIN-12 / GTIN-14SizeShell & Coating MaterialANSI/ISEA 105 Cut LevelPack quantityCountry of Origin
GDSN / GS1 Global Data Model
GTIN-14Brand nameNet content & pack hierarchyGPC brick codeCountry of OriginTarget market
Own site filter rail & punchout catalog
ANSI/ISEA 105 Cut LevelShell GaugeCoating CoverageCuff StyleTotal Glove LengthSize

Safety Gloves data, in practice

Why does the same glove show 'Level 4' on one datasheet and 'A4' on another?

Two different editions of the same standard. ANSI/ISEA 105-2005 and -2011 rated cut on a 0-5 scale using the CPPT method. The 2016 edition replaced it with A1-A9 bands measured by ASTM F2992 (TDM-100), and 105-2024 kept those bands while adding the pentagon badge and revising how puncture is reported. A legacy 'Level 4' is a different measurement from 'A4' and does not convert cleanly. Store the rating and the edition it was issued under as two fields. Without the edition you cannot tell a re-tested SKU from a stale one, and you cannot answer a buyer who asks whether the A4 on your page was earned under the current method.

What does the X mean in an EN 388 code like 4X42C?

X means the test was not run or the result was void. EN 388:2016+A1:2018 reads left to right: abrasion 1-4, coup-test cut 1-5 or X, tear 1-4, puncture 1-4, ISO 13997 TDM cut A-F, plus an optional P for impact. Glass-fibre and steel-cored HPPE shells dull the coup test's circular blade, which voids that result, so it prints X and the TDM letter carries the real cut number. A four-digit code with no letter is EN 388:2003 legacy. Flag it for re-certification rather than publishing it as current spec.

Do I need EN ISO 374-1 Type A, B, or C?

Type is about breadth, not strength. Type A means at least 30 min breakthrough against 6 or more of the 18 listed challenge chemicals; Type B, 30 min against at least 3; Type C, 10 min against at least 1. Each pass prints as a code letter (A = methanol, K = 40% sodium hydroxide, and so on), and each chemical carries its own performance level 1-6, where 6 is at least 480 min under EN 16523-1. A Type B glove with 480 min against your actual solvent beats a Type A glove that was never tested against it. Carry the type, the code letters, and the per-chemical breakthrough time, not just the type.

Should cut level and impact level live in the same field?

No. ANSI/ISEA 105 covers cut, abrasion, puncture and needlestick. ANSI/ISEA 138-2019 covers dorsal impact and is a separate certification with its own three levels, set by mean transmitted force: Level 1 at 9 kN or below, Level 2 at 6.5 kN or below, Level 3 at 4 kN or below, measured by dropping a 2.5 kg mass at 5 J onto knuckles and fingers and classifying on the worse of the two regions. Oil & gas, mining and heavy construction safety managers treat impact as its own spend line and filter on it before anything else. Collapse it into a free-text features string and those SKUs never surface.

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