What should supermarket workers do when wearing gloves?

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If the worker wears gloves during his shift, what should he do going for lunch or going to the loo?
When should he be washing his hands, and should he put the gloves in his pocket?
Also, in a staffroom, can he use the kettle, toastie machine etc, as the virus lives on surfaces?

Obviously will wash hands after using loo etc

Just feels like putting the gloves back on us like putting the virus back on, but they are essential for his job and they aren't disposable gloves.

What sort of gloves are they?

Wearing gloves all day is essentially the same as having bare hands

Lunch and loo breaks the gloves should be removed and hands washed thoroughly.

Gloves should be removed before going in the staffroom and touching everything. If the employee wants to wear gloves in the staff room, they needs to be disposable gloves that they can wear while hand washing, and they should wash their hands thoroughly with the gloves still on.

If they aren't gloves that cant be worn while washing hands, they can't be worn all day. Everytime the person touches the gloves, they are transferring anything from their gloves onto their hands anyway. The same applies if they keep putting the same pair of disposable gloves on and off.

Wearing gloves all day can also make people more complacent about hand washing.

Cross post, as you say everytime you touch the gloves, you are essentially touching everything the gloves have touched.

I would not take the gloves into the staff room. I would wash hands every time I took them off. Everytime the gloves were being worn, I would treat them as though they were unwashed hands. So no touching the face, no eating or drinking wearing them. That kind of thing

My H who is still at work changes gloves every hour and wash hands when doing so. In addition, they are also changed at every toilet trip.

They are fabric gloves given to help when moving stock, ripping boxes open etc
The plastic gloves get burst open when using cages anyway, the fabric ones are better
So if he wears them, then takes them off and puts them in his pocket and washes hands before lunch break, then uses them again after lunch is that OK?

Probably better to take them off and put them in a plastic bag, before putting them in his pocket otherwise, his pockets will be full of whatever has been on his gloves.
Then wash his hands.
If it were me, I wouldn't use communal anything at work at the moment (other than the toilet!).
Could he not take his own flask and packed lunch/snacks, so he doesn't have to touch anything that has been touched by dozens of other hands.
There was a very good programme on Channel 4 on Friday " Coronovirus: Can you avoid it?"
They showed, under UV light, how potentially bacteria laden shared kitchens can be.
Good luck.

I am a train driver. I have been wearing leather gloves as I am less likely to touch/scratch my face in these. When going on my meal break I carefully put them in a ziplock bag. Coming home from work and showering/washing uniform immediately as not to infect family. I am lucky that I don’t come face to face with many others but the virus lives on metal surfaces for 12 hours so need to be careful about everything I touch in the cab (which is not very hygenic plus in the course of a shift I can drive three different trains a day, each of which has two cabs).