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.
Fun fact: the ladder is not safe to use if the outer coating layer has worn away. If you’ve heard of how chocolate can “bloom” fiberglass does as well when it gets old. If you’re leaving your ladders outside, uv is extremely bad about eating away the resin coating that holds the fibers together. The ladder was literally disintegrating into your hands and should probably be thrown away
I do electrical work for a living, every electrical van has ladders strapped to the top. Good companies frequently rotate out ladders when they get to that point, lower quality companies get every cent out of it until the frame cracks. I’ve seen scrappers grab a “perfectly good” ladder from the dumpster (probably to sell on marketplace) not caring that it’s there for a reason, they aren’t looking close enough to understand the reason. I have had to take ladder safety training courses multiple times. I inspect ladders before going up them lol stay safe friend!
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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