Contaminated work clothes should be washed or tossed. Only some can safely be washed at home. Others should be laundered at work, or deemed hazmat! When you drag your dirty carcass home after work, you could be putting family and friends at risk. Your work clothes can spread small, but dangerous, amounts of toxic material in the domestic setting.

Many substances are life threatening, so listen to this podcast as Dan Clark tells of the dangers. Dan gives details on how workers in some industries should wash their work clothes separately from other laundry. Also, in some industries, the work clothes should never leave the workplace. In extreme cases, the work clothing should be treated as hazardous materials.