Lab Attire
Keep yourself covered:
- CLOTHING: Wear a cleanroom suit, hood, and boots in ICL/TRL. In EML,
wear a labcoat, hairnet, and booties. The disposable shoe covers should go on over your closed-toed shoes with the seam oriented out and to the front of your shoe.
The cleanroom suit gowning procedure is as follows:
- Don the cleanroom hood first.
- Next don the cleanroom suit; grasp the sleeves as well as shoulders of the suit so that they do not drag on the floor while you are getting into the suit.
- Maintain your grasp on the entire upper torso of your suit as you pull on the pant legs, then slip into the upper portion of the suit.
- Tuck the hemline of the hood into and under the neckline of the suit and zip up the suit.
- Then don the cleanroom booties, tuck the pants legs of the cleanroom suit into the boots. Snap and clasp the boots.
- Put on safety glasses or goggles.
- The daily-wear vinyl gloves should be put on when you are in the glove donning area.
- When needed, all other PPE (personal protective equipment) goes on over the cleanroom gear.
- SKIN: Wear gloves, shoes, and long pants.
- EYES: Wear safety
glasses or goggles.
Note: It is acceptable to bring laptop computers and/or calculators
into the cleanroom, but the device/s must be properly cleaned in
advance with a fabwipe and other means to eliminate dust and particle
flow. All other devices and items are forbidden.
Gowning Personal Protection for Acid Handling
You must be properly dressed in the following items before transporting acids
and/or performing any chemical processing:
- Protective apron
- Over-sleeves to protect arms
- Acid/solvent-resistant gloves
- Safety glasses
- Full face shield
Gloves
There are three kinds of gloves that are worn in the lab:
- Vinyl (transparent) gloves must be worn at ALL TIMES in the
lab.
- Used, uncontaminated vinyl gloves are recycled in the labeled bins located in the gowning areas of ICL, TRL, and EML.
- Trionic gloves: A trilayer sandwich of latex, nitrile, and
neoprene. These protect against most acids and solvents.
- Nitrile gloves: Available in TRL and EML. These provide splash protection when working with solvents. Replace the nitrile gloves after a splash occurs.
To check the integrity of your gloves, blow air into them or fill
them with N2. Twist the top and hold to see if they deflate. If
any air escapes, discard the gloves and take a new pair.
