There are various strategies, sequences, methods, and techniques laboratories can establish for their PPE doffing procedures, and the procedural details will vary between laboratories based on the site-specific and activity-specific risk assessments, the procedures being conducted, and the PPE worn.
PPE doffing order is more important than donning order because all PPE will be clean and donned before conducting work. Doffing will involve removing and discarding potentially contaminated PPE with caution.
If an item of PPE becomes obviously or potentially contaminated during work (e.g., gloves or lab coat), doff them as soon and safely as possible, and don new.
Contaminated PPE should not be doffed with bare hands. However, sometimes it may be possible to doff PPE with bare hands if able to remove the PPE from touching a clean (contamination-free) area of the PPE or if using an area of ‘clean’ inside out PPE to doff other PPE (as described further below).
