Draft safety information profile personal protective equipment usage in industry.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Chapman J ; Pearson GW
• Description:
  The safety of personal protection equipment used in industry is reviewed. Types and uses of head, face and eye, hand, foot and whole body protection equipment are discussed. The potential hazards associated with poor maintenance or improper use of protection equipment is discussed. The numbers and percent of different types of facilities that required personal protective devices are listed. The accident statistics in which these devices may have been a factor are presented. The existing codes and regulations for personal protective equipment usage are presented. The authors recommend that further study be undertaken on the lack of or improper usage of protection devices, and on the performance of existing safety equipment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Contract; Contract-210-80-0042; Personal-protective-equipment; Safety-equipment; Accident-analysis; Standards; Body-protection
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-47
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00122450
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB83113423
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1981 Jun; :1-47
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  JRB Associates, Inc., McLean, Virginia, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NIOSH, Morgantown, West Virginia, 47 pages, 26 references
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/241435/cdc_241435_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]