My friend runs a commercial pool and has ruined yet another sweatshirt playing with chemicals. Looking at coats there are a lot of options and few specifics. What do I want to give her? Bonus points for a fun color or pattern.
My friend runs a commercial pool and has ruined yet another sweatshirt playing with chemicals. Looking at coats there are a lot of options and few specifics. What do I want to give her? Bonus points for a fun color or pattern.
The ladies that work for me in my lab use disposable lab coats. They are made of some sort of papery material and actually last a few months. We get them from Benco Dental supply in quite a few bright colors. They hold up to bleach well.
In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :
Would an apron possibly meet the need? Immediate frontal coverage unlike a coat that could be forgotten to be closed, but, no sleeve coverage if that is needed.
Isn't it a huge safety violation for workplaces not to have available appropriate PPE and SDS's?
Otherwise just more sweatshirts from Goodwill or similar.
Waxed cotton may hold up. But I would personally go with a tie-dye sweatshirt. That way if the chlorine stains it, it isn't really noticeable.
Bonus points if it says something silly like "chlorine is my perfume"
Tyvek overalls might suffice.
I deal with a lot of battery acid.
Any thing cotton get get holes quickly.
Polyester holds up way better. I wear dickies pants and whatever free T-shirt’s that work provides.
Blacksmithing/welding apron?
Heather is a chemist (teacher and actual).
She likes these because they have a band at the wrist, snap front, pockets, access to your actual pockets, have a good length, are chemical resistant, and are pretty cheap.
Back in the 70s-80s all the Pool guys around here had Datsun or Toyota pick-ups with big holes in the bed from acid eating the thin metal away......
Disposable lapcoat or maybe a disposable coveralls suit?
What do we mean that the chemicals have ruined the shirt? Bleached it? Eaten through the shirt entirely? Shrunk it?
akamcfly said:Isn't it a huge safety violation for workplaces not to have available appropriate PPE and SDS's?
They have it available, she doesn't like it and it's a nonprofit so they're not buying different. I'd like to find something she'll use instead of ruining my hoodies. She got acid on one last week and now it's pretty much just a hood.
They have coveralls. She hates putting them on. I'm thinking a coat of some sort.
akamcfly said:Isn't it a huge safety violation for workplaces not to have available appropriate PPE and SDS's?
Yes. And training to use it.
What do the SDS's for those chemicals say?
Well you could show her some horrifying YouTube videos of chemical burns and such, that may give her a change in attitude. She goes there for an income not a fashion show.
I ran a pool. If you wear your daily clothes to work you live in stuff with holes in it. Tiny splashes you would never notice, and can't easily avoid, are not quite to the burn your skin when they touch you levels, but they ruin your clothes. My advice would be to just buy her more stuff. If you care if her sweatshirts have holes in them outside of work buy her some that have work related logos or graphics, and some that look better outside of work. Reality is she will probably end up with holes in all of them because she likes wearing stuff you bought her, and she likes her work.
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