Comment on Chemistry lab safety: gloves or no gloves
Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Its fucking insane to not wear nitrile gloves. This is the same rationale as seatbelts are less safe because they give you a false sense of security. PPE is not meant to be there to protect you as part of day to day operations but in case of accidents which like… obviously will happen. There’s also the hazard of repeated exposure.
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 1 week ago
I like the seatbelt analogy better than the old-timey one I thought of at first: surgeons are gentlemen, and gentlemen’s hands are always clean, ergo surgeons need not wash their hands. Maybe I’m jaded, but my perception of the diehard no-gloves camp is one of arrogant exceptionalism.