
	Friday Fax A Weekly Summary of Polywater^® News of Incredible Importance

Issue #559

Salisbury, a leading manufacturer of lineman safety products, tested Grime-Away™ specifically on their rubber lineman gloves and found it to be compatible.

The recently obtained Salisbury Approval for Grime-Away^™ Multipurpose Wipes as a hand cleaner is big news. Salisbury, a leading manufacturer of lineman safety products, tested Grime-Away specifically on their rubber lineman gloves and found it to be compatible. Salisbury's approval allows craft personnel at electric utilities and high voltage contractors to clean their hands with the highly convenient and effective Grime-Away presaturated wipes in the field and then don their rubber gloves with no detrimental effect to the gloves. This is extremely important because gloves are very sensitive and are the only life-saving safety measure between workers and deadly power sources--especially when working "barehanded" with gloves only (no hot sticks or other intermediary safety tools). Utilities routinely restrict the materials that come in contact with rubber safety gloves--going so far as specifying the type of soap that crews can use in their locker room, since many soaps also harm the gloves. This document should help your salespeople to differentiate Grime-Away from other hand and tool cleaners currently in use. Showing your utility customers this letter can help you get Grime-Away on standards. Grime-Away is best known as a cleaning product, but in the area of live-line tools and lineman gloves, it's a safety product.

Salisbury's approval is for Grime-Away's use as a hand cleaner--not as a rubber glove cleaner.

Be careful not to misrepresent the approval above and cause confusion. Salisbury's approval is for Grime-Away's use as a hand cleaner--not as a rubber glove cleaner. The approval is intended to allow workers to clean their hands before wearing their gloves so they don't transfer incompatible oils or soaps into the gloves. We've heard tales of workers ruining gloves simply by eating greasy finger food for lunch. Grime-Away is not formulated for cleaning gloves, nor should it ever be promoted as such. RBG Rubber Goods Cleaner is the correct Polywater product for cleaning rubber live-line tools, although the big market is for rubber blankets, sleeves, and jumpers, not gloves. Most utilities send dirty gloves out for servicing rather than maintaining them in the field. Making the distinction between RBG and Grime-Away is a great topic of discussion when you're introducing Polywater's Live-line Safety Poster, which both products are a part of.

The Friday Fax Editor's Joke of the Week

The Joke

Airport Tales. Ticket agents reveal who's running our government ... 1) I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. (On an airplane!) 2) I got a call from a candidate's staffer, who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information, and then she interrupted me with, "I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Capetown is in Massachusetts." Without trying to make her look stupid, I calmly explained, "Cape Cod is in Massachusetts; Capetown is in Africa." Her response: "Click." 3 A senior Vermont Congressman called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in Orlando. He said he was expecting an ocean-view room. I tried to explain that's not possible, since Orlando is in the middle of the state. He replied, "Don't lie to me, I looked on the map and Florida is a very thin state!" 4) I got a call from a lawmaker's wife who asked, "Is it possible to see England from Canada?" I said, "No." She said, "But they look so close on the map." 1) An aide for a cabinet member once called and asked if he could rent a car in Dallas. When I pulled up the reservation, I noticed he had only a 1-hour layover in Dallas. When I asked him why he wanted to rent a car, he said, "I heard Dallas was a big airport, and we will need a car to drive between gates to save time."

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