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Caundered Rental Shop Towels May Conceal Potential Dangers.

California State Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally (DCompton) introduced a bill requiring suppliers of laundered shop towels to affix a warning label alerting users that the towel may have been in contact with hazardous materials. After introducing the bill, Dymally said in a statement in the Los Angeles Sentinel, that what is “troubling” is that the cloth towels are “typically contaminated by one customer, laundered, and returned to a different customer whose unsuspecting workers believe they are using clean towels to wipe their hands, arms and faces.”⁶

Metal shavings from lathing operations can injure faces and hands, resulting in lost work time.⁵

Residual oils, greases and heavy metals can endanger employee health.⁵

Rental Shop Towels Waiting to be Laundered Can Pose an Invisible Threat.

Federal EPA regulations provide a clear, national policy for handling and disposing of used Industrial Wipers. But Shop Towels are subject to a wide variety of confusing — and sometimes conflicting — state and ocal
rules.
Rental Shop Towels waiting to be laundered are often stored in nylon bags supplied by the launderer. This method of storage can be a violation of OSHA and/or DOT hazardous materials transportation regulations.