South African WfW worker's personal protective equipment remains contaminated even after handwashing

Because most South African Working for Water (WfW) workers hand-washed their personal protective equipment, they had difficulty in properly removing residues and soil from the personal protective equipment. The WfW program is a national government-wide initiative that uses herbicides for the removal of alien invasive plant species and has a policy of hiring unemployed members of poor, marginalized communities. (Source: Pududu BA, Rother HA. Whose jurisdiction is home contamination? Para-occupational 'take-home' herbicide residue exposure risks among forestry workers' families in South Africa. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021;18[19]:10341. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)