Respiratory Protection Selection
Running Head: RESPIRATORY PROTECTION SELECTION
Respiratory Protection Selection
Therese Kress MGT. 401 Hazardous Materials Management
Instructor Stephen Griffith
September 29th, 2014 MGT401: Hazardous
RESPIRATORY PROTECTION SELECTION Respiratory Protection Selection
Employers have a wide variety of Respiratory Protection gear that can be used these days to protect their workers from hazardous situations. It is up to senior management to accurately identify the correct respiratory gear required to protect their employees if a hazardous situation were to occur. It is vital that the correct air respirator be selected for the wearer, to continue a safe and healthy atmosphere based on the different hazards that they might encounter while working. Such element might be in the form of particulates, gases and vapors, a combination of particulates and gases, or an oxygen deficient atmosphere.
These devices can range from a simple, inexpensive dust mask to a pricy self-contained breathing unit. As a rule, these Respiratory Protection devices can be divided into two classes. You have the (APR) Air-Purifying Respirators and then you have the (SAR’s) Supplied-Air Respirators (Gantt, P. 2009). As a hazardous material specialist it is my job to evaluate these two major types of respirators in four different scenarios. The paper will provide a short description of each respirator and how the selection process was determined as to the better choice of respirator for the situation at hand.
SAR’s are the highest form of respiratory protection which supply clean air from an outside source to the wearer of the device, either through a tank or a hose line, connected to an air source. SAR’s provide protection against all five of the major types of airborne hazards, but just because it is the best level of protection does not mean that it is the safest. (Gantt, P. 2009). APR’s, on
Respiratory Protection Selection
Therese Kress MGT. 401 Hazardous Materials Management
Instructor Stephen Griffith
September 29th, 2014 MGT401: Hazardous
RESPIRATORY PROTECTION SELECTION Respiratory Protection Selection
Employers have a wide variety of Respiratory Protection gear that can be used these days to protect their workers from hazardous situations. It is up to senior management to accurately identify the correct respiratory gear required to protect their employees if a hazardous situation were to occur. It is vital that the correct air respirator be selected for the wearer, to continue a safe and healthy atmosphere based on the different hazards that they might encounter while working. Such element might be in the form of particulates, gases and vapors, a combination of particulates and gases, or an oxygen deficient atmosphere.
These devices can range from a simple, inexpensive dust mask to a pricy self-contained breathing unit. As a rule, these Respiratory Protection devices can be divided into two classes. You have the (APR) Air-Purifying Respirators and then you have the (SAR’s) Supplied-Air Respirators (Gantt, P. 2009). As a hazardous material specialist it is my job to evaluate these two major types of respirators in four different scenarios. The paper will provide a short description of each respirator and how the selection process was determined as to the better choice of respirator for the situation at hand.
SAR’s are the highest form of respiratory protection which supply clean air from an outside source to the wearer of the device, either through a tank or a hose line, connected to an air source. SAR’s provide protection against all five of the major types of airborne hazards, but just because it is the best level of protection does not mean that it is the safest. (Gantt, P. 2009). APR’s, on