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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 32731 |
| CIS number |
80-192 |
| Year |
1979 |
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| Title |
International Symposium on Personal Protective Equipment, Torremolinos 8-11 May 1979. |
| Original title |
Colloque international sur les équipements de protection individuelle, Torremolinos, 8-11 mai 1979. [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Servicio social de higiene y seguridad del trabajo, Torrelaguna 73, Madrid 27, Spain, 1979. 982p. Illus. 448 ref. |
| Abstract |
The papers presented at the Symposium (organised by the International Labour Office, the International Social Security Association and the Spanish Social Service for Occupational Safety and Health) are reproduced in the original language, under the following main themes: role of personal protective equipment in an occupational safety and health (OHS) policy (examples from Spain, Italy and the USSR); respiratory protection (historical background, problems of wearing respirators, European standardisation, limits to the use of respirators, West-German regulations, evaluation of respiratory protection in various types of work, other aspects); protection against falls (biomechanical and ergonomic criteria for choice of personal protective equipment, anthropometric data, safety nets, scaffolds and overhead walkways, national standards for safety helmets, recent additions to available fall arresters, West-German standards for safety helmets and protective gloves, adherence of safety shoes). Exhaustive Italian bibliography on personal protective equipment, covering the period 1968-1978 (the works cited are abstracted, with comments). |
| Descriptors (primary) |
personal protective equipment |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
protection against falls from heights; protective gloves; ISSA; Spain; ILO; safety nets; fall arresters; respirators; non-slip soles; standardization; safety belts; conference; safety helmets |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Personal protection
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