Originally Posted by Malo83
Originally Posted by gathermewool
Originally Posted by Malo83
No!
What an odd response. It's fine if people don't want to wear gloves and it's fine if you feel that there's very little risk for you exposure level, but to roll your eyes at the question is pretty immature.
There's seriously no logical argument against wearing gloves while dealing with HAZMAT, which most maintenance contains at least a little of...
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I only get eczema on my hands. I'm convinced that it was due to the many times at sea, cleaning lube oil separator disks in ship's diesel oil. This stuff was black and ran our DG's, and we pumped a bit over every so often into a large basin, which we used for general parts cleaning - I don't think it was ever drained and refilled, based on the thick layer of sludge at the bottom. Anyway, I don't remember its designation, but it was heavier than your typical motor vehicle diesel, which we called gas oil and used to get the DG's going; it was also likely full of other crap that wasn't good for me from all of the things cleaned in it.
I was a young buck and didn't know any better. I then met an engineer who refused to be rushed into a job, even though everyone else made fun of him for using PROPER PPE. I tried to emulate him, but it was too hard. Jobs needed to be done and PPE wasn't usually made readily available, especially for things like I just mentioned. There WERE a single pair of old gloves by the station, but their insides were saturated in DO, anyway!
I also remember a time, when I was a newly-qualified engineer and I asked for proper PPE to do a grind/weld job, and was looked at like I was a maniac. They were adamant about every welder wearing leathers, but I had to scrounge for a simple dust mask to be my only breathing protection. I had to mount a few fans nearby to blow at least some of the vanadium away from the work site. Even so, I knew when my brake time was, because I would become so drenched in sweat that I would start to feel tingling in my arms while welding. They were two cheap to replace the broken ER exhaust fan for weeks.
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I just wanted to add my $0.02, because there are likely young or ignorant people on this site who might be cyber-pressured into thinking gloves are for wienies and that having carcinogens and other chemicals and debris beneath their nails is a sign of a real man. Phooey, I say! If I have dirty nails, it's from yard work, and what's beneath my nails is actual dirt.
Took it personal did you, in my 65 years i've done all my vehicle oil changes with no gloves and 22 yrs of working on NAVY jets,turboprops and helos with no gloves, always had rags and paper towels to wipe my hands down with. Oh and i don't have anything under my fingernails, keep them trimmed short at all times, maybe you need to do a better job washing your hands to get that dirt out from under your fingernails.
Kind of missed the point, did you?
Your logic is kinda like - I done been smokin' for 30 years and ain't got cancer - smokes ain't gonna hurt'cha!
If you truly DAILY worked on dirty components, then you'd know that getting clean nails DAILY isn't very easy to do. The only way to get somewhat clean nails was for me to cut them down to nubs and scrub the [censored] out of them, and even then they weren't super clean. There is no degbate: gloves = safer and cleaner hands. This doesn't even count the number of times I'd come up for lunch and stuff down a sandwich or two down my gullet with "clean" hands, hoping to get a quick work-out in before I had to go on watch.
