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IF HANDS COULD SPEAK

SI LES MAINS POUVAIENT PARLER

WENN UNSERE HÄNDE SPRECHEN KÖNNTEN

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Managing glove-associated reactions

All of us in the laboratory have probably encountered personally or from colleagues skin reactions when wearing gloves. Indeed given the substancial increase in glove usage in the laboratory, the fact that the incidence of glove associated reactions has also risen should come as no surprise. To address these concerns, SHIELD Scientific has recently published an article "If hands could speak" in LABORATORY NEWS.

The key learning points from "If hands could speak" are as follows:

Indentifies the three reactions (Irritant contact dermatitis, allergic contact dermatitis and natural rubber latex allergy) encountered when wearing gloves
Distinguishes between glove-associated and non-associated-glove reactions
Provide guidance on action that can be taken to mitigate the occurence of glove-associated reactions
Gives specific focus to natural rubber latex allergy and highlights the importance of wearing low protein non-powdered natural rubber latex gloves

At SHIELD Scientific, all of our gloves are subjected to rigorous controls to minimize the potential for glove associated reactions

GLOVE LEGISLATION

REGLEMENTATION GANT

HANDSCHUHE VORSCHRIFTEN

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Reading the Runes: Demystification of glove legislation

The use of disposable gloves in the general working environment is widespread. Indeed they are such a big part of our working lives that glove usage in the US has dramatically increased from less than 1 billion to over a 20 billion. We tend to use disposable gloves for either process protection from human-borne contamination or for personal protection and often for both reasons. However as safety in the occupational environment becomes an increasing concern, do we really understand what level of protection we are getting?

For those of us that have the time to decipher the pictograms displayed on the product, we may be surprised by the different legislation being used on gloves in the general workplace....