Polyco Grip It Oil GIOG5 Gauntlet-Style Heavy-Duty Gloves
It can be difficult to find a glove that has it all, but the Polyco Grip It Oil GIO5G Gauntlet-Style Heavy-Duty Gloves certainly come close. Offering an excellent level of protection against mechanical risks, as well as some security when handling chemicals and hot materials, these gloves are suitable for a range of industries, including construction, building, chemical, glass manufacture, warehousing, metal fabrication, transport, janitorial, oil, and automotive industries.
The enhanced grip gloves offer secure handling in wet and oily conditions as well as elevated comfort, with a flexible nitrile coating and seamless, lightweight design.
What's Included?
What Glove Size is Right For Me?
The Grip It Oil Gauntlet-Style Gloves are available in a size 8 and a size 9. To discover if either of these sizes are a good fit for your hands, start by measuring the length of your hand and the circumference of your palm (as seen below).

Once you have these measurements, compare them to the table below to find out if either of the available sizes can offer a secure fit for you.
Size | Palm Circumference | Hand Length |
Size 7 | 178mm | 171mm |
Size 8 | 203mm | 182mm |
Who Can Use the Gauntlet-Style Gloves?
These gloves are a tough and durable, boasting excellent levels of mechanical resistance, which makes them ideal for a range of heavy-duty tasks. Examples of industries that these gloves are particularly useful in include construction, building, glass manufacture, chemical, oil, warehousing, machinery and equipment, metal fabrication, transport, janitorial, and automotive industries.
Recommended uses include (but are not limited to):
- Glass handling
- Sheet metal handling
- Handling sharp and abrasive tools and components
- Handling oily components and materials
- Assembly tasks
- Loading and unloading boxes
- Maintenance of machinery and equipment
- Machine operation
- Cutting and processing
- Metal fabrication
- Light-duty chemical handling
- Light-duty chemical processing
- Working with battery acid
- Oil refining
- Oil processing
- Domestic and industrial cleaning
How Can the Nitrile-Coated Gloves Protect My Hands?
These gloves offer an excellent level of protection against a wide range of risks. Safety features of these tough and durable gloves include:
- Excellent level of abrasion resistance protects hands from injury when handling coarse tools and materials
- Superb cut resistance enables secure handling of sharp tools and materials
- Type B chemical resistant design offers adequate protection when handling a selection of hazardous chemicals
- Level 1 contact heat resistant construction enables brief, intermittent handling of tools and materials as hot as 100°C
Testing to European Standards
EN388: Mechanical Resistance
Hazard | Resistance Level |
Abrasion Resistance | Level 4 |
Cut Resistance | N/A |
Tear Resistance | Level 4 |
Puncture Resistance | Level 2 |
ISO Cut Resistance | Level E |
EN ISO 374-1: Chemical Resistance
- EN ISO 374-1: Type B: AKL
Chemical | Breakthrough Time |
Methanol | ≥ 30 minutes |
Sodium Hydroxide (40%) | ≥ 30 minutes |
Sulphuric Acid (96%) | ≥ 30 minutes |
EN ISO 374-5: Resistance to Micro-organisms
These gloves meet the European Standards for protection against bacteria and fungi.
EN407: Resistance to Heat
Hazard | Resistance Level |
Burning Behaviour | N/A |
Contact Heat | Level 1 (100°C) |
Convective Heat | N/A |
Radiant Heat | N/A |
Small Splashes of Molten Metal | N/A |
Large Splashes of Molten Metal | N/A |
Key Features and Benefits
- Pair of heavy-duty protective gloves
- Ideal for protection against a range of mechanical and chemical risks
- Excellent abrasion resistance for safer handling of coarse tools and materials
- Superb cut resistance enables secure handling of sharp tools and materials
- Highly-durable and tear-resistant construction for glove longevity
- Basic level of contact heat resistance enables brief, intermittent handling of materials up to 100ºC
- Double-nitrile coating enhances grip function on wet, oily, and dry materials
- Offer resistance to bacteria and fungi to help minimise the risk of contact contamination
- Seamless, lightweight design offers elevated comfort
- Highly flexible for ease-of-movement, and helping to reduce hand strain
What Are These Gloves Made From?
- Liner: High-performance polyethylene (HPPE) and glass fibre
- Coating: Double-coated nitrile
Documentation for the Grip It Gauntlets