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.

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We talk about all sorts of things from the perspective of conservation professionals, from museum trends and new technology to the big issues like pay and staying safe at work. In some museums conservation can be a bit of a naughty word but we think it ought to be celebrated!