Hand protection

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Hand protection
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Avoidance of direct contact with materials

• Automation, closed system
• Efficient ventilation
• Protective gloves
• Barrier cream
• Skin care program

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Skin care program

• Soap, detergent, cleaning agent without allergen
  irritant
• Water, shower
• Soft towel
• Emollient moisturising cream

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• Protective gloves

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Gloves materials

• Rubber materials
• Natural rubber
• Chloprene rubber (Neoprene)
• Fluorocarbon rubber (Viton)
• Nitrile rubber

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Gloves materials

• Plastic polymer materials
• Polyethylene
• PVC
• polyurethane

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• Wrong believe
• gloves provide complete protection from all
  chemicals

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Is a glove suitable as protection?

• Last way for control of exposure
• Nature of hazard
• Which chemical
• Physical hazard ? Double gloves
• Abrasion
• Cut
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• Material of glove

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Ways of failure of gloves

• Misuse
• Choosing the wrong glove
• Not removing correctly
• Improper storage of glove

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• Single-use gloves

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• Reuse gloves
• Wash the gloved hands before removing
• Technique of removing

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Donning

• Pickup each glove by holding the part of glove,
  immediately below the cuff
• Not less than 3cm of cuff remain unsoiled

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storage of glove

• Interior surface of glove should be expose to air

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Ways of failure of gloves

• 2. Physical damage
• 3. Degradation
• 4. Permeation (breakthrough time)

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Which glove?

• 1. hazard
• 2. potential for skin contact
• 3. nature of contact
• intermittent/ constant
• 4. Physical characteristics of chemical
• Volatile
• mixture

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Which glove?

• 5. Physical damage to glove
• 6. Temperature
• 7. Requirements of task
• 8. Training
• 9. Size
• 10. cost

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Which glove?

• 11. Effects on skin of wearing gloves
• Hyper hydration
• Irritation
• Sensitization
• Cream
• Cotton glove

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Effective glove selection

• Manager
• Introduce new hazards
• Supervision
• Consequence of failure

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