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Document ID (ISN)49881
CIS number 88-1168
Year 1987
Convention or series no.
Author(s)
Al-ma(had ul-(arabiyy li-ṣ-ṣiḥḥa wa-s salāmat il-mihniyya
Title Personal protective equipment
Original title Mu(addāt ul-wiqāyat ul-fardiyya [in Arabic]
Bibliographic information Arab Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, P.O. Box 5770, Damascus, Syria, no date. 64p. Illus.
Abstract Review prepared by participants in a seminar on personal protective equipment at the Occupational Health and Safety Institute of the Arab Labour Office (Damascus, 17-21 August 1987). Contents: importance of personal protective equipment; role of personal protective equipment in protection against workplace pollutants; safety helmets; eye and face protection; respiratory protection; hearing protection; hand protection; special clothing for protection of the body; heat-protective clothing; clothing for protection against liquids and chemicals; protection against falls; foot protection; recommendations of the study group.
Descriptors (primary) protective clothing; personal protective equipment; ALO
Descriptors (secondary) foot and leg protection; protection against falls from heights; chemical protective clothing; face and eye protection; data sheet; respirators; hand and arm protection; heat protective clothing; safety helmets
Document type F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards
Subject(s) Personal protection
Broad subject area(s) General safety, health and conditions of work
Browse category(ies) Protective clothing
Personal protection