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<\/a>*<\/span><\/strong><\/span>EC<\/span><\/strong><\/span>:<\/span><\/span> OSHA & Worker Safety: Glovesick: Hospital gloves are vulnerable to permeation, punctures, and other risks; here’s how to keep health care workers safe<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>[\u00ae]<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span> [REF: IC, RN, SFT<\/strong><\/span><\/span>] EC News, July 2014, Vol 17, #7, Pg 5 JCe1407_B7<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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Gloves are a mainstay of personal protective equipment (PPE), but in order to receive their full protective benefits, the following potential failures and their causes need to be kept in mind:
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  • \u00a0Permeation – Using the wrong type or thickness of glove can allow certain chemicals, drugs, disinfectants, etc. to actually come through the glove.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • \u00a0Penetration – punctures from long fingernails, jewelry and rips\/tears from improper donning<\/span><\/li>\n
  • \u00a0Degradation –\u00a0 donning gloves with lotion or wet hand sanitizer, weakening from improper or too lengthy storage, <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    On page 6 there is a useful table that lists 6 of the commonly used glove materials, along with the pros and cons of their use (e.g., latex is vulnerable to organic solvents and vinyl is vulnerable to alcohol). Page 7 contains a sidebar on glove \u2018Do\u2019s (e.g., put gloves on last when putting on PPE ) and Don\u2019ts (e,g., wearing a glove(s) for prolonged periods of time ).
    \nTip<\/span>: IC should review the written procedures for use of PPE as required by EC.02.02.01, EP3<\/span> and evaluate the appropriateness of glove types\/materials being used by various staff in IC-risk related areas.
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*EC: OSHA & Worker Safety: Glovesick: Hospital gloves are vulnerable to permeation, punctures, and other risks; here’s how to keep health care workers safe[\u00ae] [REF: IC, RN, SFT] EC News, July 2014, Vol 17, #7, Pg 5 JCe1407_B7 Gloves are a mainstay of personal protective equipment (PPE), but in order to receive their full protective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,55,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cat-rtn_1407","category-catcf1_ic","category-cat-cf1_rn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldsinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldsinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldsinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldsinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldsinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8852"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldsinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9950,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldsinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions\/9950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldsinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldsinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fieldsinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}