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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?
One time, the R&D Director put out a dress code memo, and it detailed that if there were any questions that one should "feel free to talk to him". That memo stated "no jeans", so I asked him if jeans meant the the type of fabric (denim) or the cut of the pocket/pattern; he replied "isn't that obvious?", and I told him if it was obvious that I wouldn't have asked.Same company, different CEOs for 30 years. We could wear Levis and shirts with collars maybe until early 1980s. Then Levis were banned, ties were required for staff, so I had three ties at work (one black-ish, one blue-ish, one brown-ish), and daily chose the tie that I felt matched best. Mid 1990s new CEO ditched ties, but a few still wore them, the feeling here is that those were a feeble attempt to try to make up for their lack of technical expertise. So now I wear $15-$20 cotton pants from Target and a "golf" type shirt everyday. I only wear a lab coat in the one lab that's real cold. They buy us shoes with steel toes, but there's no way I need those in my job, but I don't need to buy shoes for work.
No Levis except on designated special days, or for cleanup work anymore.