1. Protect Your Hands Protect Your Home
Mark D. Sheperdigian, BCE
Rose Pest Solutions
Troy, MI

2. Protect Your Hands!

3. Gloves! Gloves protect our hands from: Injury Toxic chemicals
Pathogens

4. Gloves!
Gloves provide comfort that will allow us to work more efficiently and effectively:
In harsh conditions
With fewer breaks
Reduced fumbles, drops, and stoppages

5. Gloves! Gloves keep us in compliance with: FIFRA (label directions)
OSHA

6. OSHA Says: User Assessment of Workplace Hazard
OSHA is unaware of any gloves that provide protection against all potential hand hazards, and commonly available glove materials provide only limited protection against many chemicals. Therefore, it is important to select the most appropriate glove for a particular application and to determine how long it can be worn, and whether it can be reused. -29 CFR 1915 non-mandatory guidelines for Hazard Assessment-

7. OSHA Says: User Assessment of Workplace Hazard
You as the user, assess each job class for hazards and choose the gloves for your people accordingly.
Take into account the potential hazards and the nature of the protection needed.

8. Coated Gloves Protection from cuts & abrasions Improved grip
Work in dirty environments without “trying to keep clean”
Available as durable or disposable

9. Cut Resistant Gloves Kevlar® or Kevlar® blend Dipped or un-dipped
Variety of prices & quality
Some very expensive, very high performance models are available

10. Insulated loves
For work in the cold
Water proof models are available

11. General Work Gloves For use with power tools For general use
Many models available

12. If it Doesn’t Fit, You Must Quit! …and some gloves that fit!
Ill-fitting gloves are less likely to be worn
More likely to cause fumbles
May cause blisters

13. Gloves are sized by measuring around the palm of your dominant hand

14. Disposable vs. Durable Around pathogens, disposables are preferable
Learn to remove contaminated gloves without contacting the contaminated outer surfaces of the gloves
In dirty environments, durable is preferable

15. Disposable Gloves
3 mil gloves are designed for examination and other light duty tasks.
5 mil gloves will resist tearing even when working with moderately sharp edges such as multiple-catch rodent devices

16. 3 mil disposable gloves will fail
If the gloves fail during the job, you lose more than just the cost of the glove
Loss of protection
Loss of comfort
Loss of compliance

17. Into the swamp…

18. Barrier Laminate Gloves
Thin foil similar to Mylar balloons
Best for protection from the widest variety of toxic chemicals
Short usable life maybe only single use or
Meant to be used as a liner for other gloves
Expensive for a short-lived glove
Excessive protection for the hazards a technician normally encounters

19. Butyl Rubber A synthetic polymer Good for acetone
Butyl dipped cloth gloves are available
Expensive much more so than 14 mil Nitrile
May be appropriate for mixing & loading operations and power sprayers

20. Nitrile Synthetic latex for those allergic to latex
Available in disposable and durable
Durable are ~ 14 mil
used for mixing/loading and power spray
Used for dirty kitchens and other environments
Disposable are ~ 3-5 mil
Used for application
Used for rodent control

21. Nitrile
Disposable nitrile gloves of 3 mils are designed for examination and break too easily for use in the field
5 mil gloves provide sufficient protection and are worth the extra expense

22. Natural Rubber/Latex Made from natural rubber Very inexpensive
Some people are allergic to latex
Not durable enough for field use

23. Viton® Trademarked brand of BASF Good for most chemicals
NOT good for acetone.
Very expensive

24. The label may specify which gloves are to be used.
May specify the glove material
May specify the Category

25. Original Label PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE)
Mixers, loaders, applicators, and other handlers must wear the following: Long sleeved shirt, long pants, chemical-resistant gloves made of barrier laminate or Viton (selection category G), and shoes and socks.

26. Category G

27. Current Label at BackedbyBayer.com
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE)
Mixers, loaders, applicators, and other handlers must wear the following: Long sleeved shirt, long pants, chemical-resistant gloves (such as those made out of Barrier Laminate, Nitrile Rubber, Neoprene Rubber, or Viton, Selection Category E), and shoes and socks.

28. Category E

30. Category B

31. Resources
University of Nebraska Lincoln; Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources
EPA Label Review Manual
OSHA Personal Protective Equipment – Hand Protection
OSHA Personal Protective Equipment