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Annals of Occupational Hygiene Advance Access originally published online on September 23, 2004
Annals of Occupational Hygiene 2004 48(7):607-615; doi:10.1093/annhyg/meh060
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© British Occupational Hygiene Society Published by Oxford University Press;

Gloves and Dermal Exposure to Chemicals: Proposals for Evaluating Workplace Effectiveness

JOHN W. CHERRIE1,*, SEAN SEMPLE2 and DERK BROUWER3

1 Institute of Occupational Medicine, Research Park North, Riccarton Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK; 2 University of Aberdeen, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Foresterhill Road, Aberdeen AB25 2ZP, UK; 3 TNO Chemistry, Chemical Exposure Assessment, PO Box 360, Zeist 3700 AJ, The Netherlands

* E-mail: john.cherrie{at}IOMHQ.org.uk

Received 9 December 2003; in final form 28 May 2004

There are standardized laboratory tests for chemical protective gloves that provide estimates of breakthrough time and steady-state permeation flux. However, there is evidence to suggest that these tests may not be completely relevant to glove usage in the workplace. There is no consensus about how glove workplace effectiveness should be assessed, although a few studies have attempted to measure the effectiveness of chemical protective gloves. We have used a conceptual model of dermal exposure to help analyse how workers' skin may become exposed while wearing gloves, and propose a new glove workplace protection factor (PFgloves), which is based on the ratio of the estimated uptake of chemicals through the hands without gloves to the uptake through the hands while wearing protective gloves. Mathematical simulations demonstrate that glove protection factor is unlikely to be constant for a glove type, but will be strongly influenced by the work situation and the duration of the exposure. This has important consequences for the selection of protective gloves.

Keywords: chemical protective gloves • workplace protection factor (WPF)


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