WHAT’S AT STAKE?

Workplaces require millions of worker to wear respirators. Workers are protected against insufficient oxygen environments, harmful dusts, fogs, smokes, mists, gases, vapors and sprays by their use of respirators.

WHAT’S THE DANGER?

Whenever engineering and work practice control measures are not adequate to prevent atmospheric contamination at the worksite, employees need to wear respirators. Enclosing or confining the contaminant – producing operation, exhausting the contaminant, or substituting with less toxic – materials are strategies for preventing atmospheric contamination.

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF

Two basic ways respirators protect the user from removal

1. Respirators include particulate respirators which filter out airborne particles, and
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