• Question: Do you always where that to work ?

    Asked by elaw13 to Rowena, Kieren on 12 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Kieren Bradley

      Kieren Bradley answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      No, I must admit that the outfit was for a previous project last year. It is a full body suit (it even goes over shoes) which is required if you work in a clean room. The room can’t have any dust or dirt that might contaminate the ultra clean crystal wafers.

      In my current project if I go into the lab I have to wear a white lab coat and the safety goggles. Sometimes I use chemicals that are harmful to the skin and wear skintight blue gloves to prevent getting it on my hands.

    • Photo: Rowena Fletcher-Wood

      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      What I’m wearing in the picture?

      That is my lab coat and goggles. I don’t normally wear graphite powder allover my face and hands. I do normally wear a lab coat when I’m doing experiments, but not in the office. I have a special lab coat that seals right up to my neck for when I’m doing work with cancer-causing materials to keep me protected, and then I wear 3 pairs of gloves!

      I have two pairs of lab goggles. One are normal and I wear when I have contacts in. The others I am wearing there are specially made up glasses with rims on them that I can swap for my everyday glasses when I go into the lab. They are like old style glasses because they are HUGE, but I need them as they keep my eyes safe.

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