[labnetwork] Nitrile/Latex Gloves

Fri Aug 7 13:09:59 EDT 2015

The cleanroom gloves are not meant to be used with chemicals. The gloves are worn to keep human skins, oils and other contamination from the wafers and equipment. You should always use the proper chemical gloves over the cleanroom gloves when working with chemicals.

Companies like VWR and Cole-Parmer publish chemical resistant charts of gloves meant for that application.

My rule of thumb is that the cleanroom gloves are good for 30-40 minutes before skin oil starts to leak through, so we always double glove and strip the top pair off every 30-40 minutes. The first pair of gloves comes off after you have left the cleanroom.

Hope this helps

Rick

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From: labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu [mailto:labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu] On Behalf Of Shivakumar Bhaskaran
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2015 10:12 AM
To: labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu
Subject: [labnetwork] Nitrile/Latex Gloves

Hi All,

Recently I had issues with the Nitrile gloves in our cleanroom and I was exploring options to get a better one, its seems that Nitrile gloves are not good with acetone .It has high preamble rate than latex gloves. Based on my internet research Nitrile gloves are mostly used in the cleanroom, especially in semiconductor/medical production.

Major of my users do use the Acetone and there is always a chance that they will get in contact with acetone, especially when they clean the spinner with acetone. And I am concerned because of this. I want to have your opinion regarding this before I look into my options.

My vendor who supplies gloves recommends double donning the nitrile gloves, so that if the user gets in contact with acetone/solvents they immediately remove the top gloves if exposed to acetone. Else wearing the nitrile glove first and a latex over.

-Thanks
-Shiva

Shivakumar Bhaskaran, Ph.D.
Searle CleanRoom Manager
The University of Chicago
5735 S.Ellis, Room 032
Chicago-60637
Ph:773-795-2297
https://searle-cleanroom.uchicago.edu/

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