ABSTRACT
Chemical protective gloves are often thought to be the thick, heavy-duty gloves used in the chemical industry or in laboratories in the handling of risky chemicals, but thin disposable gloves are also used to protect against chemicals in work tasks requiring high dexterity. Such tasks are routine in health care and in many laboratories, but they can also be found, e.g., in car repair and machine shops. However, selecting disposable gloves to protect against chemicals is difficult: many chemicals permeate the thick industrial gloves, and the thin gloves made basically from the same materials are permeated even more rapidly. They also break more easily under chemical or mechanical stress and, similar to the thick gloves, they also may have holes or other defects.
