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Asked by deed520tuft on 26 Mar 2025.
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Hannah Blyth answered on 26 Mar 2025:
Closed shoes (no sandals or flip flops), gloves, lab coat and sometimes lab goggles/glasses.
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Caroline Roche answered on 12 May 2025:
While I am in my normal office, I just wear normal office clothes – which is around 80% of the time.
If I have to work at a factory site then I will wear the PPE that site requires.
At my current test facility – I just need to wear closed shoes and long trousers (they don’t have a preference long or short sleeved tops).
But when I start working on a site, I might need to wear steal capped boots, long trousers (sometimes fire proof ones), long sleeved tops, Hi-Vis vest or jacket, hard hat, safety glasses, cut proof gloves and a dosimeter (to measure any radiation I might encounter). If I need to go into a contaminated area (where there is radioactive dust) I would have to wear special overalls over my clothes and shoes plus a facemask if the dust is airborne (but that’s only on special projects).
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Andrew M commented on :
When working in the lab then labcoat, safety glasses and protective boots. Rubber, cotton or heat-proof gloves as needed. When working in the pilot plant then we wear “blues” – uniforms of long sleeved shirts, trousers and safety boots, usually with rubber gloves and sometimes with a bump cap and dust mask- items that don’t leave the pilot plant so we don’t contaminate other parts of plant or our homes and that we don’t mind sacrificing if we need to to protect up. For high hazard tasks we might wear a hard-hat, full body suit, a dust hood and hearing protection.
aprilcridland commented on :
When running the experiment, I usually wear comfortable clothes with jeans (no shorts allowed), safety shoes, a bump cap and a dosimeter (reads the radiation level). When I’m using cryogenic liquids like liquid helium I also use safety glasses and thick gloves.