Personal Protective Equipment for Hazardous Materials Incidents: A Selection Guide

Details

• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Ronk, Richard M. ; White, Mary K. ; Linn, Herbert I.
• Description:
  For the protection of persons engaged in the control of hazardous materials incidents, several selection algorithms were developed to aid in the selection of respiratory protective devices, protective clothing, and accessories. These included step by step guides for selecting respiratory, chemical protective clothing and ancillary equipment needed to protect workers exposed to hazardous chemicals. Methods were presented to aid in calculating tolerance times based on heat stress. These included data on metabolic heat stress rate, environmental heat stress rate, total heat stress rate, required coolant supply, coolant duration, mission duration without cooling, air consumption rate and open circuit duration, required air supply, oxygen consumption rate, employee fitness, employee duty factor, and a work rest regimen. Methods were also included for calculating the service life of the various pieces of equipment. Training, administrative, and emergency programs were included. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Eye Hot Temperature Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Respiratory Protective Devices Safety Sense Organs
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; Personal-protective-equipment; Respirators; Respiratory-protective-equipment; Goggles; Head-protective-equipment; Heat-exposure; Protective-clothing; Eye-protective-equipment
• Source:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 84-114, 1984 Oct; :1-236
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB84114
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guideline
• 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:
  242 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00184088
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB85-222230
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1985
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:715fa61d4b6412814f7cd4787d1fda879ff349540da9178e4d74641c0ce1c3062143715df0fe69a2842db8edea89b222cf57a83a9620f22929026363853f9be8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/47250/cdc_47250_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 13.16 MB ]