Selection of Earmuffs and Other Personal Protective Equipment Used in Combination
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Efficiency of personal protective equipment used in agriculture.
Despite the practical importance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), both in production and in consumption, it is observed a main problem regarding the quality of many PPE�s used in Brazil. This study found a gap between the state of the art and the state of prevailing practices in the design of PPE�s, which main consequences affect the health of workers who use PPE in agriculture activitie...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16091477