7 - Personal Protective Equipment






CONTENTS


Part I - Respiratory Protection Program (RPP)

7.1 - Responsibilities
7.1.1 Employer Responsibilities
7.1.2 Employee Responsibilities


7.2 - Program Content

7.3 - Program Administration

7.4 - Evaluation of Chrysotile Asbestos Dust Level

7.5 - Selection of the Appropriate Respirator (based on Quebec regulations)
7.5.1 Work areas and activities where fibre concentrations are always below 1f/cc
7.5.2 Work areas where fibre concentrations are between 1 and 10 f/cc
7.5.3 Work areas where fibre concentrations are between 10 and 25 f/cc
7.5.4 Work areas where fibre concentrations are between 25 and 100 f/cc
7.5.5 Work areas where fibre concentrations are over 100 f/cc
7.5.6 Remarks


7.6 - Respirator Facial Fit
7.6.1 Qualitative Fit Testing
7.6.2 Fit Testing Records

7.7 - What We Should Know About Training
7.7.1 Training of Respirator Users
7.7.2 Training of the Supervisor
7.7.3 Training of Persons Issuing Respirators
7.7.4 Training of Persons Maintaining and Repairing Respirators
7.7.5 Training Records


7.8 - Key Factors for Fit Testing

7.9 - Cleaning, Maintenance and Storage of Respirators
7.9.1 Cleaning and Sanitizing
7.9.2 Inspection
7.9.3 Storage


7.10 - Health Surveillance of Respirator Wearers

7.11 - Program Evaluation

7.12 - Wearer Acceptance

7.13 - Review of the Respiratory Protection Program (RPP)

7.14 - Remember at all times



Part II - Clothes, Washing Facilities and Services

7.15 - Work Clothes

7.16 - Protective Clothing

7.17 - Use of Washing Facilities, Change Rooms and Lunchrooms






Table 1 - Assigned Protection Factors

Table 2 - Respirator Selection Table for Chrysotile Asbestos

Figure 1a - 3M Model 8810 Dust/Mist Respirator

Figure 1b - Racal Delta P2

Figure 2a - 3M Branch 6000 Series Half Facepiece Respirator equipped with 3M Branc 2040 Series HEPA filters

Figure 2b - Survivair 2000

Figure 3a - 3M Model W-844 Airhat equipped with Internal HEPA filter

Figure 3b - Racal Breathe-Easy 1

Figure 4a - 3M Model W-3265S Face-Mounted Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR) equipped
with HEPA filter

Figure 4b - Racal Breathe-Easy 7

Figure 5a - 3M Model W-3232 Pressure Demand Supplied Air Full Facepiece Respirator

Fibure 5b - Racal Breathe-Easy 7

Appendix I - Clothes, Washing Facilities and Services



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