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Protective Gloves

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Kanerva's Occupational Dermatology

Abstract

An increased awareness of chemical, physical and microbiological risk factors in our work environment has led to an increased used of medical and protective gloves.

In order to choose right glove for specific exposures testing of gloves performance is standardized in several international standards.

These standards measure permeation of chemicals and leakage through imperfect membranes.

There are also methods for testing the biocompatibility of gloves of polymeric membranes. The exposures are of various kind and gloves has to be chosen accordingly.

No type of glove gives a perfect all-round protection but there has to be thorough risk assessment preceding the choice.

Combination exposures make the choice of glove to given extra attention.

It is always the exposure in the task and length of work that governs the choice of glove.

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  1. Department of Occupational and Environmental, Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Dermatology, Box 210, Stockholm, 171 77, Sweden

    Dr. Anders Boman Ph.D. (Associate professor, Dermatotoxicologist)

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  1. Department of Dermatology and Allergology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Thomas Rustemeyer

  2. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany

    Peter Elsner

  3. Department of Dermatology, Environmental Medicine and Health Theory, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

    Swen-Malte John

  4. Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Boman, A. (2012). Protective Gloves. In: Rustemeyer, T., Elsner, P., John, SM., Maibach, H.I. (eds) Kanerva's Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02035-3_113

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