Gloves

The law places specific responsibility for managing health & safety on employers and employees.

The Health & Safety At Work Act (1974) places a general duty upon employers to keep employees and others (such as clients) healthy and safe at work.

The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002 asks employers to undertake an assessment of any substances used at work that are hazardous to health. Natural rubber latex is a potential allergen and therefore falls into this category.

Based on this, many first aid and medical organisations have withdrawn the use of latex gloves to eliminate the risk of causing harm to the user and the potential of a subsequent court case for compensation.

Nitrile gloves are more durable than latex, non-allergenic and more elastic than vinyl gloves.  

If you are carrying gloves as part of your kit, you can keep pairs together and protected from dirt and water in the yellow container found inside a Kinder egg.  A good excuse to eat chocolate.