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Dedicated clothes for nerve agent analysis cleanup are a wise precaution. The challenges of dealing with bleach are familiar, evident even in the battle scars of holes. Safety first!Fm Whatsapp DownloadWhen working in the lab cleaning up after nerve agent analysis (thankfully only PTs) the bleach always finds something not covered by the lab coat and apron, so I have dedicated clothes for those days. Yes, holes included.
Hi,At our company there is no dress code, and we have uniforms provided for us. Blue work shirts and jeans. After a year there they finally got lab coats for the chemists, which have been a life saver. No matter how many times the uniform company washes the shirts and pants the epoxy resin will NOT come out. . .
Something I did not expect, however, was that it would take twice as long for my uniforms to come back from the cleaners as others'. I require "tall" and "long" uniforms which evidently take twice as long to clean. My lab coats showed up nearly six weeks after the rest of the lab staffs'!
Steel toed boots are a must as they have us out on the production floor on occasion.
After discovering that I was the "company canary" (my skin is extremely sensitive) I began wearing a full faced respirator whenever I went onto the manufacturing floor. I also wear it in the lab during new R&D projects, reasoning that I can't be too careful. Anyone else have that pleasure?