Attention Emergency Responders: Guidance on Emergency Responder Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Response to CBRN Terrorism Incidents

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Guidance on emergency responder personal protective equipment for response to chemicals, biological agents, and radiological particulate hazards terrorism incidents ; Attention emergency responders
• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This guidance document provides local, State and Federal emergency response entities with comparison information on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration/ Environmental Protection Agency (OSHA/EPA) Protection Levels A, B, and C to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) adopted Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) performance based standards for response to terrorism incidents involving Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) hazards. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  At head of title: Attention emergency responders.
  
  Also available via the World Wide Web.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Aerosols Biological Warfare Agents Chemical Warfare Agents Emergencies Emergency Responders Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Respiratory Protective Devices Safety
• Keywords:
  Emergency-responders; Emergency-response; Personal-protective-equipment; Personal-protection; Protective-clothing; Protective-equipment; Protective-measures; Respiratory-protective-equipment; Chemical-warfare-agents; Biological-warfare-agents; Biological-weapons; Aerosols
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2008-132, 2008 Jun; :1-8
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2008132
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  NPPTL - National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  13 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033974
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4c95a45122d69701113f1bb80adfa86fe0d022685931685c987af598a8fa617a6df57c986ad744057a5e25157f64d8c483676676dad53bee2dab3b8e4196a348
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11496/cdc_11496_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 279.98 KB ]