Certifying Personal Protective Technologies

Certifying Personal Protective Technologies

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2011-04-16

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0309158559

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When you purchase a product, you expect it to work. Construction workers on high-rise buildings need to be confident that their safety harnesses will arrest a fall. Firefighters need to know that their gloves and other protective equipment can withstand high temperatures. Healthcare workers administering highly toxic chemotherapy agents need to know that their gloves will withstand penetration. For personal protective technologies (PPT)-where the major purpose of the product is to protect the wearer against a hazard-a deficit in product effectiveness can mean injury, illness, or death. Examining the extent to which products meet specific performance or design criteria is the focus of conformity assessment efforts. For PPT conformity assessment, the ultimate goal is preventing worker illness, injury, or death from hazardous working conditions. Certifying Personal Protective Technologies focuses on conformity assessment for occupational PPT-ensuring that PPT are effective in preventing or reducing hazardous exposures or situations that workers face in their jobs. Because respirators already have an extensive testing and conformity assessment process in place, this book specifically addresses conformity assessment processes for other types of PPT, including eye and face protection, gloves, hearing protectors, and protective clothing.


Personal Protective Equipment Complete Self-Assessment Guide

Personal Protective Equipment Complete Self-Assessment Guide

Author: Gerardus Blokdyk

Publisher: 5starcooks

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780655313854

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How do you use Personal protective equipment data and information to support organizational decision making and innovation? Is the Personal protective equipment organization completing tasks effectively and efficiently? What is Personal protective equipment's impact on utilizing the best solution(s)? How do we go about Securing Personal protective equipment? How can you negotiate Personal protective equipment successfully with a stubborn boss, an irate client, or a deceitful coworker? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Personal protective equipment investments work better. This Personal protective equipment All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Personal protective equipment Self-Assessment. Featuring 683 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Personal protective equipment improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Personal protective equipment projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Personal protective equipment and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Personal protective equipment Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Personal protective equipment areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Personal protective equipment self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book.


Current Issues in the Assessment of Respiratory Protective Devices for Occupational and Non-Occupational Uses

Current Issues in the Assessment of Respiratory Protective Devices for Occupational and Non-Occupational Uses

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2021-02-13

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0309683815

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To address approaches to the respirator approval process in the current landscape for both occupational and non-occupational use of respirators, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Health convened a virtual workshop, Current Issues in the Assessment of Respiratory Protective Devices: Nontraditional Workers and Public Use on August 4â€"5, 2020. Additionally, the workshop considered gaps in respiratory protection for outdoor workers and the general public. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.


Personnel Protection and Safety Equipment for the Oil and Gas Industries

Personnel Protection and Safety Equipment for the Oil and Gas Industries

Author: Alireza Bahadori

Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing

Published: 2015-05-21

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 0128028157

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Oil and gas companies are repeatedly cited by regulatory organizations for poor training and maintenance on providing personal protective equipment to their refinery workers. Managers of refinery and petrochemical plants are responsible for instructing their workers with the types of equipment available, how to properly wear the equipment, how to properly care and maintain the equipment, and, most importantly, it’s their responsibility to enforce these regulations and safety requirements. While there are many reference materials on the subject, most are too broad to apply directly to the unique and highly volatile atmosphere of an oil and gas operation. Personnel Protection and Safety Equipment for the Oil and Gas Industries answers the call for safety managers onsite as well as workers to understand all the safety equipment available specifically for the energy sector. Condensed into one convenient reference location, this training guide is designed to inform on several types of personnel protective clothing, firefighting protective clothing, respiratory protective devises available as well as many other types of protective equipment, including fall protection and vehicle safety belts and harnesses. Industry-specific examples, multiple illustrations, and a glossary of terms make Personnel Protection and Safety Equipment for the Oil and Gas Industries a must-have on every oil and gas operation. Know recommended US and international protective safety equipment regulations Learn the types, classes, and materials of safety and protective equipment specific to the oil and gas industry Gain knowledge on how to select, test, maintain, and store protective equipment properly