The powered air purifying helmet: a product of research.

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• Personal Author:
  Vaughan KV
• Description:
  The development of the Racal's Airstream Helmet, which consists of a powered air purifying system incorporated into a wearable product, is discussed. Factors affecting the wearability of protective equipment by workers are identified. The need to design protective respirators which provide acceptable levels of protection and which meet wearability requirements is emphasized. User advantages of the Airstream Helmet are described. The need for regulations to reflect state of the art technology is discussed. The author concludes that the purpose of technological advances in the development of powered air purifying respirators is to improve human comfort. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Respiratory Protective Devices Safety
• Keywords:
  Equipment-design; Safety-engineering; Personal-protective-equipment; Safety-equipment; Respiratory-protective-equipment; Health-protection; Headgear
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  401-409
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00123916
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1980 Sep; :401-409
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Papers from the NIOSH International Respirator Research Workshop, September 9-11, 1980, Division of Safety Research, NIOSH, Morgantown, WV
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/241519/cdc_241519_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]