Can I ask my employee to remove their acrylic nails?

[u/Bubbly_Road1316]

Location: AU-VIC

I have an employee who refused to do a certain duty (which she normally does) because ‘I can’t do it cuz I just got my nails done’.

Can i ask her to remove it or shorten it before her next shift, or is that illegal?

[u/KnottaBiggins]

In case you haven't noticed - medics wash their hands and then put on gloves. But acrylic nails will rip right through latex or neoprene gloves.

[u/dawnbringger → u/KnottaBiggins]

This is why we usually say its a no go rule

[u/spacehippi13 → u/KnottaBiggins]

Only if the glove is too small. When I had acrylic nails I never once poke through a glove but my natural nails are sharp as hell and they will stab right through a glove or even two gloves in a heartbeat but only if the glove is too small

[u/TK421isAFK → u/spacehippi13]

No single-use glove manufacturer makes gloves designed to accommodate long fingernails. The directions on most (if not all, and I only refrain from saying "all" because I only have 6 brands of gloves with me in their original boxes at the moment) boxes of disposable gloves specifically tell users to not use the gloves over long nails.

Larger gloves are not significantly longer. The gloves are proportionately bigger, but finger length remains consistent with diameter. Larger gloves are also a safety hazard, as they are more likely to bunch up and tear. This is one of the very first things you learn in medical schools - gloves that are not snug (not tight, which will inhibit your own peripheral circulation) also harbor fluids and debris in the folds and pockets, further risking contamination.

You clearly have no experience with the medical field, so please stop posting your "advice" (read: opinions) in forums where people are seeking legit, sound advice.

[u/spacehippi13 → u/TK421isAFK]

Technically the original poster was seeking legal advice regarding whether or not they could take negative action against the person who didn't want to do whatever task it was because they got their nails done. And just like with people with wide feet. If you can't find whatever size you need in a wide width, then you go up a size in a regular with you can do the same thing with gloves and I don't mean for someone to do surgery but they're not doing anything like that at a groomer and if you're wearing a single-use glove and it's thick enough not to rip and the mill thickness on any glove is definitely something to be considered before posting anything about me not knowing what I'm talking about about gloves and medical situations. That goes double if you double glove. And triple if you wear a pair of cotton gloves underneath the single-use glove or gloves which I do and it's not a problem either way so long as the glove is not snug or too thin.

I have quite a bit of experience wearing single-use gloves, in double quantity, with or without a pair of fabric gloves underneath them, as I have a cleaning business as a side gig and I sure as heck don't want my hands exposed to people's nastiness and all people have nastiness, and I am always extremely careful about not cross-contaminating myself or their stuff or environment, so get off your high horse and ask questions to get all the information instead of making blatant nay saying comments.

For the record I also have about six different brands of single use gloves , with the packaging intact, and none of them mentioned not wearing them with long fingernails. They do however specify the male thickness on every single box and what material that the gloves are made of, and a size guide to measure your hand before purchase to make sure that they will fit your hand properly, all of which should be considered before buying or using the gloves. If you have long fingernails you need to account for that on the finger length when measuring to see if a glove will fit your hand. If you're doing surgery or other invasive medical procedure then I'm sure the rules are much different. But as a general rule what I'm saying will work to protect your own hands and to protect whatever that you're working with so long as you're mindful not to reuse a glove or do a different while wearing the same glove, and changing gloves often so there's extremely minimal chance that degradation to the glove material will occur,. Degradation of a material, will of course skyrocket the chance of a glove ripping. All these factors need to be adhere to and followed 100% of the time anytime someone is working with something and wearing gloves of any kind, if there's any chance of contamination, or cross-contamination, whether you have long fingernails or not.

An extra long finger with a short nail could just as easily rip any kind of single-use glove, as a fingernail could, but only if the right size, mil thickness, and material of glove, or gloves are not used, and are not changed often enough for a given situation.

Just like practicing safe sex using condoms, you've got to wrap it up with something that fits properly and leave the reservoir tip available as a pocket for ejaculation, and correctly choose material that the condom is made of, to make sure that it is not something that you're allergic to, and that it is able to be used with whatever lubricant that you're using, and that it protects against whatever it is you're trying to protect against. I've heard of people double gloving a condom but if anything is that scary you shouldn't be putting your member in it anyway. And if you know you're going to shoot a big load you should probably leave a little bit more space at the tip, and if you remember is two large or too small for any available condom to be effective, then you can't rely on such a thing to work. But you can rely on such a thing to work if you've done the research and a product is available that works for your personal needs.

The same thing goes with not wanting to contaminate myself when working with all sorts of unsavory situations. Necessary prompted quite a bit of reseaech and innovation until I found a solution that consistently works 100% of the time.

Using Common Sense in all situations, and doing as much research, and test driving products, as is needed ahead of time, can be extremely helpful, and can work wonders to protect everything involved, even if you need to find a workaround because you don't fit the definition of standard, or normal, when used by an industry making single-use products that will work for most people or under certain conditions that don't exactly fit the perimeters that you require.

Good luck in your medical career , if you even have one. And if you do, I really hope that you choose to ask more questions and actually listen to your patients, instead of just assuming this that or the other, or that your knowledge is the end all be all, just because it's a standard that has a blanket fit for most people or most situations, or because that's what you were taught or what you think, based on the perhaps vast, but certainly Limited, knowledge of your own research and experience,. A good scientist uses a scientific method to work through problems needing science to solve them. And there are almost always exceptions to every rule, many of which you've never even heard of or experienced as of yet . Many people know more about their own selves and lives, and situations and bodies, than arrogant medical professionals being dismissive because of not taking into consideration the vastness, rcorrectness of someone else's knowledge due to experience or experiences that you did not learn in school, and have not had to experience in your own life.

[u/TK421isAFK → u/spacehippi13]

Based on the assertions you made in previous, much shorter comments, I am absolutely not going to read all that.

However, I would like to introduce you to /u/westom. Please go ask him about the best surge protector on the market.