Factors affecting respirator tolerance.

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• Personal Author:
  Bansal S ; Harber P ; Liu D ; Liu Y ; Santiago S ; Us S ; Yun D
• Description:
  Both the decision analysis and experimental approaches suggest: 1.) There is a "trade-off" between respirator protection factor and protection of workers! i.e., highly protective respirators that are not used may actually be less protective to public health than less effective devices that far better tolerated & more widely available; 2.) Since we do not (yet) know which outcomes are most important, respirator design & evaluation should consider multiple domains: (physiologic impact,respiratory adaptation, multiple subjective components, work productivity, & actual utilization).
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular System Law Enforcement Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Analytical-processes Equipment-design Face-masks Filters Injury-prevention Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Physiological-effects Physiological-factors Physiological-measurements Protective-equipment Protective-measures Pulmonary-system Respirators Respiratory-equipment Respiratory-protective-equipment Risk-analysis Safety-engineering Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Standards Work-environment Worker-motivation Workplace-studies

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038996
• Citation:
  Personal Protective Technology Program Stakeholders Meeting, March 3, 2009. Pittsburgh, PA: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2003 Mar; :15
• Contact Point Address:
  Philip Harber, UCLA Occupational-Environmental Preventive Medicine, 10880 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1800, Los Angeles, CA 90024
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Personal Protective Technology
• Performing Organization:
  University of Arizona, Tucson
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050715
• Source Full Name:
  Personal Protective Technology Program Stakeholders Meeting, March 3, 2009
• End Date:
  20140731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:41b6872df06d8699dd4b567181b11088ef5065f59fcb8d36924bbb5e0aa5f6ce9e76e68f8cfe05c758e4b176e66ac02214ec7549e2724f25a0041e4d7fd59b76
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181577/cdc_181577_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 458.35 KB ]