Handwashing with rubber gloves - boring GQ

[igloorex]

I’ve checked the CDC site for the answer with no luck.

If you are wearing rubber gloves and are exposed to a biological agent (oh, say, anthrax as an example), are you supposed to:

1. Take off the gloves and then wash your hands.
   or
2. Wash your hands with gloves still on, then take off the gloves, and then wash your hands again.

[Keeve]

wanna tell us which CDC site you’re talking about?

maybe only people who are NOT wearing gloves are supposed to wash their hands?

[igloorex]

The center for disease control’s site (http://www.cdc.gov/)

I’ve found stuff there that’s close, such as this:

It can be tricky to get pesticide-soiled gloves off and safely out of your way.

To take off your gloves when you’re done working with pesticides, peel one glove off by holding the cuff. Then, with your ungloved hand, hold it wrong-side out as you peel off the other glove by the cuff.

When you’re finished, both gloves will be wrong-side out and the contaminated surface will be on the inside.

Now seal the soiled gloves in a one-gallon plastic bag. And they’ll be safely out of your way until you’re ready to wash or get rid of them.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nasd/psas/ia10600.html

and

And the rule is that folks who are handling mail and/or in any format, and they’re wearing gloves, and those gloves get torn or nicked, or in any way, the integrity of those gloves is compromised, then what one does it remove the glove then, wash your hands with soap and water, no special soap, regular soap

in this interview:
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/transcripts/t011025.htm

[Bob_Scene]

The usual practice is to wash your hands after removing your gloves.