S01E04: Glove Up!

We have a chat about gloves: their uses, problems, and varieties. Also is there such a thing as clean hands? Tune in for an interview with Dr Cordelia Rogerson and Dr Paul Garside from the British Library who tell us about their glove policies. 00:23 Gloves, gloves, gloves - and when people refuse to wear them 03:56 The health and safety aspect 05:46 Lifting the glove rule (ish) 07:21 The White Cotton Glove Problem 15:27 Not wearing gloves 16:15 Cross-contamination worries 22:49 Disposable gloves and recycling 24:31 Colours! 26:09 Chemical resistance in nitrile gloves 28:30 Hand cleanliness - or lack thereof 33:02 Subconscious bias? 35:34 Interview with Dr Cordelia Rogerson and Dr Paul Garside about glove policies 47:47 Review: Jenny and Kloe talk about their favourite nitrile gloves 52:22 Comments, corrections and questions Show Notes: - Arsenic in rice: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38910848 - Nitrile glove recycling scheme: https://www.terracycle.co.uk/en-UK/brigades/gloves - Terry Kent’s research for the British Library: http://blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare/2016/09/fingerprints-their-potential-impact-in-relation-to-handling-library-collections.html Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Christina Rozeik. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2017.