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[classic]

Hi

 

Can anyone help

 

Our staff are handling product which is a 0 C in a high risk area.  They currently wear blue disposable nitrile gloves but are complaining of the cold.  They need to be able to handle product.  Can anyone recommend gloves which are suitable in a high risk environment, which do not shed fibres and can be washed easily and meet BRC requirements.

 

Thanks

[brianweber]

We used just a regular cotton glove and wore the nitrile gloves over them. We were a level III Sqf facility.

[pooled]

Previously at a BRC certified facility where the same practice was used, white cotton gloves under blue nitrile was acceptable with all of the auditors we dealt with.

[Charles.C]

Hi

 

Can anyone help

 

Our staff are handling product which is a 0 C in a high risk area.  They currently wear blue disposable nitrile gloves but are complaining of the cold.  They need to be able to handle product.  Can anyone recommend gloves which are suitable in a high risk environment, which do not shed fibres and can be washed easily and meet BRC requirements.

 

Thanks

 

Hi Classic,

 

Is this working environmental temperature actually legal in UK ? (I assume this is not a chilled storage room / cold store)

 

Surely 5degC is a satisfactory minimum already from a microbiological POV.

 

IMEX 5degC is worker-unacceptable for routine purposes (eg yr OP query)  although I am aware that some/many facilities (justifiably or not) like to  implement such levels via options such as previous posts.

 

Customers (and auditors) love it of course.

[classic]

Hi Charles

 

It is not the working environment temperature that is the problem but the temperature of the product that the operators are handling.  They are provided with body warmers worn under their PPE.  The room is temperature controlled at around 9 to 10  C. 

 

Regards

 

Classic

[Charles.C]

Hi Charles

 

It is not the working environment temperature that is the problem but the temperature of the product that the operators are handling.  They are provided with body warmers worn under their PPE.  The room is temperature controlled at around 9 to 10  C. 

 

Regards

 

Classic

 

Thanks.

 

I do wonder if the employees are also  (unconsciously) complaining due to the cold environment. These things can be psychological you know.

 

Regardless the previous posts should work (for the operator's fingers) based on my experience frozen foods.

 

If otherwise perhaps yr product has special characteristics.

[Watanka]

We use blue nitrile gloves over work gloves when circumstances require it.  Lots of success, no downside ripping or tearing.  Works well with auditors. 

[classic]

If white cotton gloves are ok how are they controlled - are they disposable, who is responsible for washing them.

 

Thanks

[brianweber]

Ours were disposable. You could launder them if you chose, but I have found that they shrink, and pretty much suck after that.

[pooled]

If you decide to keep them for reuse it needs to be incorporated into your laundry program which is a huge hassle, it would be easier to just purchase disposable cotton gloves. A pair a day per employee should not be that high an expense.