Disposable Clothing

Published January 2003

Disposable clothing is often used in cleanrooms, animal care, and hazardous operations. This clothing consists of jumpsuits, lab coats, hats, masks, gloves, gauntlets, shoecovers, aprons, and gaiters. While worn over a person's street clothes to protect them from coming in contact with a hazardous agent, this clothing can also be worn to prevent someone from bringing a hazardous agent into the facility. Such clothing is usually worn only once and then discarded or sterilized and worn again.