Many careers require the use of gloves, both for the protection of workers and for sanitary reasons. Where once the manner of disease transmission was unknown and care for employees’ health and safety was non-existent, now such things are a matter of utmost concern. Today, people in all sorts of jobs rely heavily on gloves. Day care workers and food handlers don gloves to protect against the spread of disease, as do health care employees. Laboratory workers need protection from harsh chemicals, and industrial workers use gloves to guard against injury as well as harmful chemicals. The variety of gloves manufactured is astounding.