Yeah, this thread is old, but I just got around to reading it. Last outage, there was a rash of hand injuries. You know the kind: employee was not wearing gloves, employee was wearing the wrong type of glove, employee was wearing ONE glove but working with the ungloved hand, yadda, yadda, yadda. So, it becomes MANDATORY to have gloves on your person while in the power block, regardless of whether you were working or simply traversing the area. Anyway, by making it mandatory, the company had to supply the gloves. Since this is a BWR, and everything going into the power block has to be SAM'd.....you guessed it, 95% of the gloves went into the rad trash when people left the power block. The last figures I saw put our cost for GLOVES at over $200k for a 33 day outage. I don't even want to guess how much it cost to dispose of them all.