PERSONAL PROTECTIVE CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT
Limitations
- Personal protective equipment appropriate for use with one substance may be totally inappropriate for use with another substance (e.g. respirators, gloves). Inappropriate use of personal protective equipment may result in unnecessary exposures or injury
- Know the expected service life of personal protective equipment and replace it as necessary.
- For respirator cartridges utilizing adsorption as the filtration mechanism, when all available collection sites have been filled, “break through” occurs and contaminants will pass through the cartridge.
- Likewise, gloves will provide protection for only specific periods of time before the contaminant permeates through the glove material and “breakthrough” occurs.