So we had a small oil spill incident last month at our workshop in Al Jurf Industrial, nothing major thankfully, just a leaking drum that got caught fairly quickly, but it exposed a problem I hadn't really thought about before, the absorbent pads we had on hand were honestly kind of useless, they started disintegrating almost immediately once they got saturated, leaving little bits of fibrous material scattered around which actually made the cleanup messier than it probably needed to be, and one of our older technicians mentioned that we'd been buying whatever was cheapest without really paying attention to quality, which in hindsight seems like a pretty obvious mistake but when you're restocking supplies regularly it's easy to just grab the lowest price option without thinking too much about performance differences, so now I'm trying to figure out what actually separates a decent absorbent pad from a bad one, is it purely about the material used, or does thickness and stitching quality play a bigger role in how well they hold up once they're actually soaked, while looking into better options I came across a listing for genuine absorbent pads and spill socks in Al Jurf Industrial (https://www.crateco.ae/productlist/spill-kits-US-Made) that seemed to specifically call out absorption capacity and tear resistance which honestly wasn't something I even knew to look for before this incident happened, does anyone know if there's a noticeable difference in performance between pads made for general maintenance spills versus ones specifically designed for oil or fuel type substances, because we deal with a mix of both depending on the job and I don't want to end up buying two separate types if one versatile option would actually cover both scenarios adequately, also does anyone have experience with spill socks specifically, because I've seen them mentioned alongside pads but I'm not entirely sure when you'd use one over the other or if they're meant to work together during an actual spill response situation, I really don't want to be in a situation again where our response equipment fails us mid cleanup the way it did last time, so if anyone here has gone through a similar wake up call moment with subpar spill supplies and found something that actually performed reliably when it mattered, I'd really appreciate hearing what worked for you before we finalize our next restocking order.