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Decontamination of Personal Protective Equipment
Health Security, 2019Exploratory field analyses of the inactivation capacity of disinfectants on contaminated personal protective equipment (PPE) are required to select a suitable surrogate for biohazardous agents like spores of Bacillus anthracis. The objectives of our study were (1) the determination of an appropriate surrogate for the inactivation of spores of B ...
Karin Lemmer +5 more
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COVID-19: fear appeal favoring purchase behavior towards personal protective equipment
, 2020The 2019 novel coronavirus is a non-segmented positive-sense RNA virus belonging to the Coronaviridae-Nidovirales family. We examined the swings in purchase behavior following the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, and across the world based on ...
P. Addo +3 more
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Smart personal protective equipment for intelligent construction safety monitoring
Smart and Sustainable Built EnvironmentPurpose The construction industry remains one of the most hazardous industries worldwide, with a higher number of fatalities and injuries each year. The safety and well-being of workers at a job site are paramount as they face both immediate and long ...
A. Rashidi +4 more
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Comfort of personal protective equipment
Applied Ergonomics, 1995The 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.
Farhang Akbar-Khanzadeh +2 more
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2001
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the various ways through which personal protective equipment (PPE) reduce injuries and illnesses in the workplace. It discusses the role of personal protective equipment in the total hazard control program; the effectiveness of personal protective equipmentdevices used to provide head, eye, face, heating ...
James B. Walters, William F. Martin
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Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the various ways through which personal protective equipment (PPE) reduce injuries and illnesses in the workplace. It discusses the role of personal protective equipment in the total hazard control program; the effectiveness of personal protective equipmentdevices used to provide head, eye, face, heating ...
James B. Walters, William F. Martin
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Personal Protective Equipment and Dermal Exposure
Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 2001Personal protective equipment (PPE) should only be used as a control measure when other measures are inappropriate or are inadequate by themselves. The person undertaking a risk assessment must exercise his or her judgment to take into account the protection afforded by the PPE. There is, therefore, considerable scope for differences in approach and it
Paul G. Evans +2 more
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2000
Publisher Summary A virtually infinite number of chemicals and chemical mixtures are potentially present on hazardous waste sites. Remedial action personnel must be properly protected to prevent short- and long-term disabilities related to these hazards.
Larry Janssen, Arthur D. Schwope
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Publisher Summary A virtually infinite number of chemicals and chemical mixtures are potentially present on hazardous waste sites. Remedial action personnel must be properly protected to prevent short- and long-term disabilities related to these hazards.
Larry Janssen, Arthur D. Schwope
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Detection of personal protective equipment
2018 26th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2018In this study, a special detection algorithm was developed to determine whether personal protective equipment, which is required to be worn by occupational safety personel on construction sites, is used by employees. In this study, we focused on the moving areas for personal protective equipment used by people.
Oner Hatipoglu, Ali Koksal Hocaoglu
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Personal Safety and Personal Protective Equipment
2014The employees of industrial firms are exposed to hazards during work. These constitute a danger if they manifest themselves by disease, injury or death.
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Contrastive-based YOLOv7 for personal protective equipment detection
Neural computing & applications (Print), 2023Hussein Samma +3 more
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