Personal protective equipment (PPE) for anesthesiologists: the need for national guidelines

Thermal comfort and personal protective equipment (PPE).

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is considered the last preferred solution to an Occupational Safety Health (OSH) system. Brazilian OSH legislation assumes and requires PPE usage to neutralize the possibility of pesticide contamination. This study examines the inadequacy of the PPE used in a tomato crop, particularly from the standpoint of thermal comfort. This study made observations regard...

New development of research on personal protective equipment (PPE) for occupational safety and health

Introduction of Ergonomics and Comfort in the Selection of Personal Protective Equipment (ppe); Concepts for a New Approach

This paper describes an initiative to integrate aspects of ergonomics and comfort into a selection system for personal protective equipment (PPE). Selection criteria intended for PPE mainly focus on the efficiency of chemical protection to reduce respiratory and skin exposure. However, the efficiency of PPE is not exclusively determined by the protection aspects of respiratory protective equipm...

Development of bioassay system for evaluation of materials for personal protective equipment (PPE) against toxic effects of ionizing radiations

Health effects caused by ionizing radiations raise considerable concern among general public and radiation workers. To estimate ability of personal protective equipment (PPE) materials that reduce toxic effects of ionizing radiations, we developed an experimental bioassay system using Chinese Hamster V79 cells. The system developed here distinguished the biological effectiveness of X-ray that w...

Comfort of personal protective equipment.

The degree of comfort of personal protective equipment (PPE) was investigated in an automobile encapsulating plant. Up to 96.2% of employees used one or a combination of PPE. Only 8% of the workers felt their respirators were comfortable, 30% tolerated their respirators, and 62% rated them as uncomfortable. The percentage of employees who rated their PPE (other than a respirator) as comfortable...