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Safety Gloves

Discover the importance of wearing safety gloves in handling hazardous chemicals. Learn about different glove materials and their protective properties to ensure proper protection and safety in the laboratory environment.

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Safety Gloves

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  1. Safety Gloves ByungJoon Lim 10/16/2012

  2. Safety Gloves • Protect your hands from hazardous chemicals • “Gloves MUST BEworn whenever handling hazardous chemicals. Appropriate gloves MUST BE provided for all laboratory employees.” – From EHS lab safety manual • Glove compatibility charts are useful to choose proper gloves.

  3. Glove compatibility charts

  4. Latex • Mostly produced from natural rubber tree • Excellent protection from aqueous solution, but weak protection from various organic chemicals • Some people are allergic to latex.

  5. Nitrile • Most widely used in organic labs • Synthetic rubber copolymer of acrylonitrile and butadiene • Very resistant to aliphatic hydrocarbons, but permeable to aromatic hydrocarbons or ketones

  6. Neoprene • Synthetic rubber polymer registered by DuPont • Monomer is chloroprene. • Similar or Better protection effect against most chemical than nitrile • But more expensive!

  7. Other polymers • Butyl – isobutylene and isoprene • Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) – vinyl chloride • Viton - hexafluoropropyleneand vinylidene Fluoride • Ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) – ethylene and vinylalcohol • Working very well but very expensive! • Hardly used as disposable gloves in labs

  8. Cautious! • “ANYglove can be permeated by chemicals.” – From EHS lab safety manual • Don’t believe gloves too much - Replace used gloves regularly! • Put on two folds of gloves (latex & nitrile) • More information for individual solvent or chemical • http://www.showabestglove.com/site/ • http://www.mapaglove.com/index.cfm

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