Good pair of gloves helps keep workers' hands safe

As any automotive technician will tell you, a good pair of gloves is your most important tool. Gloves are indispensable. They protect one of your most important assets -- your hands.

Hands have always required protection for specific jobs and working conditions. Although these jobs and environments varied, the gloves usually did not. Bulky, one-size-fits-all gloves were often the only gloves available to protect hands performing a variety of tasks.

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Prior to present day, work gloves were stuck in the dark ages -- no dexterity or breathability and little in the way of protection or comfort.

Work gloves are great tools when working with vibration equipment, power tools, impact tools or doing carpentry where your hands could be at risk. In NASCAR, over-the-wall pit crew members also know just how important of a role gloves play, especially when every second counts during a pit stop.

There's a critical connection between you and your tools. Your work gloves are no exception. They should combine protection with performance and sacrifice neither.

As anyone who works with their hands knows, getting burned -- or scratched, scalded, greased or calloused -- makes it much harder to be on your game at work. That's why choosing the right work glove is so important.

Whether you're jumping the pit wall at Daytona or just doing a little tuneup in the garage, you can have complete confidence that your gloves offer you the best protection in the industry.

So when you know you don't want to do the job bare-handed, which work gloves work best?

Well, more than 15 years ago, a small group of intuitive minds dared to ask the question -- is a glove just a glove? From the first use of Mechanix Wear "Original" Gloves by the Richard Childress Racing No. 3 team at the 1992 Daytona 500, the company has maintained an important role in NASCAR. Everyday mechanics, technicians, construction workers, do-It-yourselfers, industrial safety, emergency services and military professionals all benefit from their products. And you can, too. Visit www.mechanix.com.