Laboratory Testing of Chemical Oxygen Self-Rescuers for Ruggedness and Reliability

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• Personal Author:
  Benz SL ; Kyriazi, Nicholas ; Stengel JW
• Description:
  The Bureau of Mines subjected two manufacturers' chemical oxygen (ko2) self-rescue breathing apparatus to a series of laboratory environmental treatments designed to stimulate various conditions in underground coal mines. The environmental treatments consisted of extremes of temperature, shock, and vibration. The tests were designed to be used as predictors of the ability of the self- rescuers to survive those environmental insults with no degradation in their protection to the wearer. Based on the severity of the treatments, simulating conditions more severe than offered by the mining environment, the two apparatus tested should be able to withstand the abuse offered by the mining environment and still function as intended in an emergency. Correlation of these tests with results of long-term field evaluations is needed to provide confidence in the laboratory tests as predictors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications ; Case Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-21
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10002357
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB82/232463; :1-21
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1982
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB82/232463
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2c221fdddfb1f54f1736d0a58109cc90320f6b09207a3865db885ff877b92aa77f1e98715ca3aa41d4230f73c8992d22c5edf135706074e7e311ac42d5cf1e1c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/237243/cdc_237243_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.06 MB ]