Eye and hand Protection plus clothing and respiratory protection needed when using products strong with 2-butoxyethanol

http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/0275.pdf

Eye Protection

Wear indirect-vent, impact and splash resistant goggles when working with liquids. Use chemical safety goggles and/or a full face shield where splashing is possible. Maintain eye wash fountain and quick-drench facilities in work area

Wear a face shield along with goggles when working with corrosive, highly irritating or toxic substances.

Contact lenses should not be worn when working with this substance.

Entry of vapors through the eye membranes is very probably the most serious form of exposure, per one seasoned auto painter... that and thru the cuticle area of your hands

Avoid skin contact with 2-butoxyethanol. Wear solvent-resistant gloves and clothing. Safety equipment suppliers/manufacturers can provide recommendations on the most protective glove/clothing material for your operation.

All protective clothing (suits, gloves, footwear, headgear) should be clean, available each day, and put on before work.

Skin Protection:
Wear impervious protective clothing, including boots, gloves, lab coat, apron or coveralls, as appropriate, to prevent skin contact.

Any who clean gear should take precautions,

and know what they are dealing with.

Wear the Appropriate Gloves More info

Respiratory Protection:

Where the potential exists for exposure over 5ppm, use a MSHA/NIOSH approved full facepiece respirator with an organic vapor cartridge. Increased protection is obtained from full facepiece powered-air purifying respirators.

If while wearing a filter or cartridge respirator you can smell, taste, or otherwise detect 2-butoxyethanol, or if while wearing particulate filters abnormal resistance to breathing is experienced, or eye irritation occurs while wearing a full facepiece respirator, leave the area immediately. Check to make sure the respirator-to-face seal is still good. If it is, replace the filter or cartridge. If the seal is no longer good, you may need a new respirator.

Be sure to consider all potential exposures in your workplace. You may need a combination of filters, prefilters or cartridges to protect against different forms of a chemical (such as vapor and mist) or against a mixture of chemicals.

Where the potential for high exposure exists, use a MSHA/NIOSH approved supplied-air respirator with a full facepiece operated in a pressure-demand or other positive-pressure mode. For increased protection use in combination with an auxiliary self-contained breathing apparatus operated in a pressure-demand or other positive-pressure mode.

Exposure to 700ppm is immediately dangerous to life and health. If the possibility of exposure above 700ppm exists, use a MSHA/NIOSH approved self-contained breathing apparatus with a full facepiece operated in a pressure-demand or other positive-pressure mode.

One reason there should not be dispersant use for oil spill cleanup, is that the dispersants are too strong in 2-butoxyethanol and other harmful chemicals, AND there is no appropriate gear possible to protect the workers. PLUS the time exposure for workers is NOT a 40 hour work week; often they are young men sequestered away from family and friends... truly at the mercy of their employer.

EPA should remove these dispersants from their OK to use list

What Happened during the Exxon Valdez oil spill ceanup?

Restated: What was the Appropriate Gear to Use with Inipol EAP 22?

And... what was the Appropriate Gear for using Inipol EAP 22?

MSDS states what gear?

Unless the public objects,

these dispersants for oil spill cleanup are on a 'fast track' for future use.

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