| Document ID (ISN) | 74529 |
| CIS number |
00-473 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1076-2752 - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Year |
1999 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Muhm J.M. |
| Title |
Medical surveillance for respirator users |
| Bibliographic information |
Nov. 1999, Vol.41, No.11, p.989-994. Illus. 23 ref. |
| Abstract |
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration has changed the content and frequency of medical assessments required by the Respiratory Protection Standard. The requirement for periodic reevaluations has been replaced by a requirement to reevaluate users when they experience difficulties with respirator use, or when changes in the workplace result in increased physiological stress in workers. The experience of medical surveillance programmes for respirator users suggests that routine surveillance is not necessary. The frequency of disease sufficiently debilitating to preclude respirator use found through medical surveillance is low; adverse outcomes experienced by respirator users, although potentially tragic, are not outcomes for which medical surveillance plays a preventive role. This article proposes an approach for in which the respirator components are evaluated before the user is subjected to medical investigations. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
physical fitness; medical supervision; respirators |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
USA; periodic medical examinations; aptitude tests |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | USA |
| Subject(s) |
Personal protection
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Chemical safety
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Respiratory protection
|
