Apart from wearing gloves, you can use a so called dermo-protective creme.
These exist in different type's for different appl. Even normal hand-creme
will protect in a way and at least makes your hands much easier to clean.
Here in Europe Stockhausen is the leading manuf.
Good luck
Huib
(MD Occ. Health)
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>
Aan: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Datum: vrijdag 14 mei 1999 4:14
Onderwerp: Protecting your hands (no direct LBC content)
>
>
>I'm wondering what - if anything - people do to protect their hands while
>working on their cars. Besides the obvious skinned knuckles, the fluids in
>our cars can be pretty tough on skin. I'm draining the gas tank of my car
>in preparation for pulling the body. Some gas splashed on my hands.
>Besides the lingering foul smell ("You're not sleeping in my bed
tonight!"),
>gas is awfully tough on your skin.
>
>I've been thinking about using some sort of gloves. Leather or other thick
>gloves would be too clumsy for much of the work, plus they'd hold solvents
>like gasoline. Surgical gloves seem like they wouldn't dull your tactile
>sense too much (after all, surgeons use 'em). I've put off trying them
>figuring they couldn't be very resitant to the various solvents they'd
>encounter.
>
>Any thoughts on this subject?
>
>Skip Montanaro | Mojam: "Uniting the World of Music" http://www.mojam.com/
>skip@mojam.com | Musi-Cal: http://www.musi-cal.com/
>518-372-5583
>
|