Gloves

While both medical examination gloves and surgical gloves are vital components of personal protective equipment (PPE) used in healthcare settings, each is designed with distinct characteristics to meet the specific requirements of their intended use. Choosing the appropriate type of glove for the procedure and level of risk is essential to ensuring the safety of both healthcare providers and patients.

Quality for both types of gloves is described in terms of their “Acceptable Quality Level (AQL)”, a statistical measure of the number of pinholes and other defects in a batch of gloves.

AQL is measured using air and water leak tests and serves as a direct indicator of a manufacturer’s process quality and aspects such as glove length, width and thickness.

The lower the AQL, the better the glove quality.

Acceptable Quality Level Per Glove Type: