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Dear Lab Tech Guy,
I am often confused by the range of safety gloves
available in the lab where I work (a QC testing
facility for drug products). Do you have any advice
on how I should select the correct gloves?
Yours,
James
(Manchester, England)

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Dear James,
As you might expect, selecting the correct gloves for working in
a laboratory depends on what you are going to be handling.
When you carry out a risk assessment you need to consider
what you will touch and the risk associated with that chemical,
material, equipment etc.
You may find that the MSDS for a particular chemical will
suggest a suitable type of glove to use. A comprehensive
Glove Selection Chart which summarises a wide range of
chemicals together with appropriate types of gloves is provided
by All Safety Products Inc.
Getting gloves off without touching the outside is a skill worth perfecting:

4. In many laboratories nitrile
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gloves are used as a general
purpose glove. This is because
they provide protection from a Interesting fact # 1
wide variety of solvents, oils, Perhaps surprisingly, sticky tape and Marigold gloves are
among the most effective gear to prevent radioactive dust
petroleum products and some coming into contact with the body during nuclear
corrosives. They also have decommissioning.
good resistance to cuts, snags,
punctures and abrasions.
Therefore I recommend that you
always keep a box of these
handy.
Yours digitally,

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