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"It all started with the simple aim of providing consumer protection with ultimate convenience.
However, through our determination and commitment to continuous improvement, we're absolutely delighted the results have been globally game-changing for both the environment and the industry. Our top 5 game-changers are: 1) Increasing profitability and follow-on shop sales by conveniently keeping your customers hands clean; 2) Anti-static and ATEX-Certified to ensure static-safety and prevent spark discharge in the fuelling zone; 3) Exceptional dispenser efficiency saving 2/3 gloves used on the forecourt (1x GripHero for every 3x standard gloves); 4) Highly efficient production methods reducing the overall plastic footprint by over 87%, and card footprint by over 80%; achieving over a 94% reduction in the carbon footprint of forecourt hand-protection; 5) Enabling compliance with fuel handling Worker and Consumer Safety Laws (such as the FHSA in the USA; CoSHH, CLP and PPE Regulations in the EU and UK) maintaining full and valid insurance, while helping safeguard fuel stations from fuel handling/exposure injury claims. We want to make the customer journey on forecourts a safe and better experience for consumers, to protect all (both staff and consumers) who may be exposed to hazardous chemicals in hazardous atmospheres, and importantly for fuel stations to succeed within their own health, safety and environmental improvement policies through using best-practice consumer protection. Our passion for improving HSSE on the fuel station continues. " Oliver Yeo (CEng MIMechE) Founder & Managing Director |
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GripHero is absolutely thrilled to become *Double WINNERS* in 2019 for both the:
APEA 2019 "Environmental Protection & Improvement"
and the
APEA 2019 "Innovation" Awards
APEA 2019 "Environmental Protection & Improvement"
and the
APEA 2019 "Innovation" Awards
Then, at the very next time the APEA Awards were held in November 2021, words can't describe how humbled and ecstatic we were to again be recognised as *Double WINNERS* in 2021 for both the:
APEA 2021 "Environmental Protection & Sustainability"
and the
APEA 2021 "Health & Safety Performance" Awards
APEA 2021 "Environmental Protection & Sustainability"
and the
APEA 2021 "Health & Safety Performance" Awards
We are so delighted our commitment to continuous improvement has received such high industry recognition and to win such prestigious accolades twice in a row. We have proven the products globally in industry, with forecourts all across the globe benefiting from a transformation to their health, safety and environmental practices.
A huge thank you to all who voted for the recognition of this.
A huge thank you to all who voted for the recognition of this.
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Award winning for environmental protection
How?
GripHero reduces waste... there's no excuse for unnecessary waste. GripHero makes it easy to retrieve just one piece at a time. Forecourts experience an average reduction in plastic hand-protection consumption of over 66% - a ratio of 1:3 (1x GripHero for every 3x standard gloves). This average continues to grow.
GripHero stops plastic glove litter... there's no excuse for unnecessary littering. We all know forecourts are often snowing with disposable glove litter whenever there's a strong breeze. It's hardly surprising given that attempting to retrieve one glove often dislodges ten more - ready to be blown into the environment the next time a customer attempts to take one, or there's a slight breeze. Using GripHero, forecourts have ended their daily litter collection from neighbouring properties and fields.
Highly efficient production methods... the production of GripHero is exceptionally efficient, producing no plastic waste or off-cuts in its production cycle. GripHero also uses a fraction of the packaging of standard hand-protection, dramatically reducing your use of card-based materials. Thanks to our highly specialist cartridge winding processes, the cartridge can be produced and packed with almost no air, requiring only a fraction of the space needed to transport standard hand-protection, using far fewer trucks in its journey to your forecourts.
GripHero stops plastic glove litter... there's no excuse for unnecessary littering. We all know forecourts are often snowing with disposable glove litter whenever there's a strong breeze. It's hardly surprising given that attempting to retrieve one glove often dislodges ten more - ready to be blown into the environment the next time a customer attempts to take one, or there's a slight breeze. Using GripHero, forecourts have ended their daily litter collection from neighbouring properties and fields.
Highly efficient production methods... the production of GripHero is exceptionally efficient, producing no plastic waste or off-cuts in its production cycle. GripHero also uses a fraction of the packaging of standard hand-protection, dramatically reducing your use of card-based materials. Thanks to our highly specialist cartridge winding processes, the cartridge can be produced and packed with almost no air, requiring only a fraction of the space needed to transport standard hand-protection, using far fewer trucks in its journey to your forecourts.
GripHero uses the right materials... We want to take a number of steps forward in terms of the use of plastics and their environmental impact - reducing the carbon footprint of the forecourt. Our hand-protection is independently verified to massively reduce the CO2 footprint (over 94% CO2 reduction for our 100% recycled plastic R100 cartridges) when compared to the production and dispensing of standard gloves and other forms of hand-protection.
GripHero helps forecourts recycle... GripHero offers the most brightly coloured and stand-out recycling bins to capture used hand-protection for onward recycling (or composting) and help close the loop on the use of plastics. For volume orders, bespoke options are available - please ask us for more details.
GripHero differentiates... forecourts use GripHero as the most prominent and visible way to show care and improve the driver's experience and welfare.
GripHero standardises... why is it always so difficult to locate hand-protection on forecourts? Why do dispensers come in varying type, shape, size and colour? Why are they always in random locations, on the other side of the forecourt or facing the wrong direction? For the level of risk to health, shouldn’t it be standardised and immediately to hand?
GripHero stands-out... GripHero makes forecourt hand-protection unmissable, standardised and located in the most convenient of all locations possible. It's there ready and waiting to protect drivers as soon as they arrive. Because of its prominent position and visibility to drivers, they will know they can protect themselves and keep their hands clean even before they enter the forecourt.
GripHero enables... drivers have quick, clean and hassle-free access to fuel pumps without suffering contamination of the hands.
GripHero makes hygiene easy... the GripHero offers an innovative take on dispensing hand-protection - user friendly, beautifully designed, ergonomically perfect.
GripHero makes forecourt fans... If fuel price is competitive, the next priority for drivers is clean hands. Which forecourt would you choose?
It's win-win for both parties
GripHero helps forecourts recycle... GripHero offers the most brightly coloured and stand-out recycling bins to capture used hand-protection for onward recycling (or composting) and help close the loop on the use of plastics. For volume orders, bespoke options are available - please ask us for more details.
GripHero differentiates... forecourts use GripHero as the most prominent and visible way to show care and improve the driver's experience and welfare.
GripHero standardises... why is it always so difficult to locate hand-protection on forecourts? Why do dispensers come in varying type, shape, size and colour? Why are they always in random locations, on the other side of the forecourt or facing the wrong direction? For the level of risk to health, shouldn’t it be standardised and immediately to hand?
GripHero stands-out... GripHero makes forecourt hand-protection unmissable, standardised and located in the most convenient of all locations possible. It's there ready and waiting to protect drivers as soon as they arrive. Because of its prominent position and visibility to drivers, they will know they can protect themselves and keep their hands clean even before they enter the forecourt.
GripHero enables... drivers have quick, clean and hassle-free access to fuel pumps without suffering contamination of the hands.
GripHero makes hygiene easy... the GripHero offers an innovative take on dispensing hand-protection - user friendly, beautifully designed, ergonomically perfect.
GripHero makes forecourt fans... If fuel price is competitive, the next priority for drivers is clean hands. Which forecourt would you choose?
It's win-win for both parties
Award winning for customer protection
A bit about the Company
GripHero Ltd was formed to address an everyday problem facing every motorist on the planet when filling up with fuel – uninformed and unprotected exposure to a Group-1 human carcinogen (simply translated to the everyone's experience of dirty, sticky, smelly hands!).
The Company was founded early in 2017 by Oliver Yeo, a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a multi-award-winning background in engineering design and large-scale project management for both PetroChem and Defence industries.
It was during an intense spell of travelling within the Defence sector – and hence a great many fill ups at fuel stations – that the real lack of consistency and reliability in the provision of hand-protection was observed. Moreover, it didn't seem right that several gloves could easily be pulled at the same time, nor that the glove materials and production methods used were exceptionally damaging to the environment.
With a daily count of over 2.5 million consumers and 50,000 employees (in the UK alone) exposed to such hazards, a passionate team embarked on a mission to:
+ eliminate unnecessary waste on forecourts;
+ make the hand-protection the most environmentally friendly on the planet;
+ make them Anti-Static, ATEX-certified and safe for use in the fuelling zone;
+ locate easy-to-use dispensers in the most convenient and unmissable position possible;
+ and enable full compliance with fuel handling regulations and worker/consumer safety laws.
With so many people in the world gripping the nozzle handles (not lightly touching, but really gripping them), keeping your hands clean at the pumps should be completely convenient to the motorist rather than a burden.
You wouldn’t enter a toilet cubicle to then realise the toilet paper is actually located next to the hand dryers!
Alongside the internationally granted patents, registered designs and trademarks, the GripHero creation has been developed to totally address this problem once and for all.
While GripHero was already adopted by the industry long before the COVID pandemic, today GripHero is served to over 1-billion fuel consumers each year across 5 continents. GripHero has since seen continued growth, as the industry (and many applications beyond the pumps) recognised the importance of protecting customers at the first point of contact with almost no CO2 footprint.
We're ready to help.
The Company was founded early in 2017 by Oliver Yeo, a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with a multi-award-winning background in engineering design and large-scale project management for both PetroChem and Defence industries.
It was during an intense spell of travelling within the Defence sector – and hence a great many fill ups at fuel stations – that the real lack of consistency and reliability in the provision of hand-protection was observed. Moreover, it didn't seem right that several gloves could easily be pulled at the same time, nor that the glove materials and production methods used were exceptionally damaging to the environment.
With a daily count of over 2.5 million consumers and 50,000 employees (in the UK alone) exposed to such hazards, a passionate team embarked on a mission to:
+ eliminate unnecessary waste on forecourts;
+ make the hand-protection the most environmentally friendly on the planet;
+ make them Anti-Static, ATEX-certified and safe for use in the fuelling zone;
+ locate easy-to-use dispensers in the most convenient and unmissable position possible;
+ and enable full compliance with fuel handling regulations and worker/consumer safety laws.
With so many people in the world gripping the nozzle handles (not lightly touching, but really gripping them), keeping your hands clean at the pumps should be completely convenient to the motorist rather than a burden.
You wouldn’t enter a toilet cubicle to then realise the toilet paper is actually located next to the hand dryers!
Alongside the internationally granted patents, registered designs and trademarks, the GripHero creation has been developed to totally address this problem once and for all.
While GripHero was already adopted by the industry long before the COVID pandemic, today GripHero is served to over 1-billion fuel consumers each year across 5 continents. GripHero has since seen continued growth, as the industry (and many applications beyond the pumps) recognised the importance of protecting customers at the first point of contact with almost no CO2 footprint.
We're ready to help.
