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work related infection!
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no im not allergic to the gloves but the fact that they irritant cleaning products are on the inside of them.
They are huge gauntlet things which I cant buy my own pair of
is it a full time or part time job?
if it's a big company maybe you could ask to be changed to another position that doesn't involve using products?
I started work somewhere and had to clean with this horrible spray, my hands came up in a nasty sore rash. I asked to be moved, and they put me in another position.
Your health is more important. I don't know about any legal things though. Good luck.
My mum is midley allergic to latex and has to have latex-free gloves for work.
Speak to Occupational health if you have one, or to your Health & Saftey manager is your line manger cant do anything to help you.
I've got a skin allergy to latex, and generally come up in a rash far quicker than anyone else does. The pool I work at uses latex gloves for general cleaning and first aid, and then gauntlet type gloves for a couple of things. I have nitrile medical gloves, and then I also wear those under the gauntlet ones because other people often get the evil stuff inside the gauntlet gloves.
Not sure how that helps, but if your work has the thin 1st aid type of disposable gloves then you could wear those underneath the gauntlets.
Big thing though, if it's causing you problems, don't do it!
Eurgh my hand looks like its got red wards on it :sour: :yuck:
I hope I can get moved.
I'm not using the stuff again until next saturday so I'll show someone afterwards again.
Its a supermarket btw I work in
Seen a doctor and got some ointment thats alll he did.