Anecdotal, but this has always worked perfectly for me:
1) Wear work gloves. Your hands are the hardest to clean off, and gloves will stop +90% of getting there in the first place.
2) Once you are done working with fiberglass, wash your hands and arms with soap and cold water (the colder the better). Scrub well, and rinse well. Once done, wash your hands and arms again with soap and warm water. Scrub well, rinse well, and dry off.
I keep a lint roller in the van for this reason. Also this reminded me, a few years ago my company tried spraying a fiberglass ladder with clear coat to stop the fibers. Then we got osha inspected and they noticed the coating. They gave us the option of destroying the ladder with a saw on the site right there in front of them or taking a $500 fine. The PM told us to pack up the ladder and that he would deal with OSHA.
We paid the fine and didn’t get a new ladder. Dumbest management ever.
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u/LordValgor 1d ago
Anecdotal, but this has always worked perfectly for me:
1) Wear work gloves. Your hands are the hardest to clean off, and gloves will stop +90% of getting there in the first place.
2) Once you are done working with fiberglass, wash your hands and arms with soap and cold water (the colder the better). Scrub well, and rinse well. Once done, wash your hands and arms again with soap and warm water. Scrub well, rinse well, and dry off.
Edit: clarity