Annals of Occupational Hygiene Advance Access originally published online on October 10, 2007
Annals of Occupational Hygiene 2007 51(8):739-740; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mem051
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Occupational Hygiene Society
LETTER TO THE EDITOR |
Safety of Gloves for Chemical protection
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Encouraged by the very interesting commentary Gloves as chemical protection—can they really work? (Packham, 2006), we would like to present results of the current work on this subject in Germany.
During the mid-1990s, health and safety experts in Germany were confronted with problems similar to those explained by Chris Packham. A project was initiated to elaborate rules for good practice for the selection of appropriate
Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Friedrich-Henkel-Weg 1-25, D-44149 Dortmund, Germany
Berufsgenossenschaft der Bauwirtschaft—Prevention, Hungener Strasse 6, D-60389 Frankfurt, Germany
E-mail: reinhold.ruehl@bgbau.de