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ID (ISN) del documento38726
Número CIS 82-2010
Año 1980
Número de serie ANSI Z88.2-1980
Título Practices for respiratory protection
Información bibliográfica American National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10018, USA, 22 May 1980. 38p. 28 ref. Price: US-$7.00.
Resumen This standard (effective 22 May 1980) sets forth accepted practices for respirator users, provides information and guidance for their proper selection, use, and care, and contains recommended requirements for establishing and regulating respirator programmes. It covers the use of respirators to protect persons against the inhalation of harmful air contaminants and against oxygen deficient atmospheres in the workplace. The following are not covered: underwater breathing devices; aircraft oxygen systems; medical inhalators and resuscitators. Contents: definitions; respirator programme requirements; classification of respiratory hazards; classification, description, and limitations of respirators; selection, use, maintenance; special problems (vision, communications, confined spaces, low and high environmental temperatures); evaluation of respirator effectiveness; reference to other standards, regulations and manuals. Appendices: approval agencies; physiological and psychological limitations for respirator wearers; oxygen deficiency; respirator fitting tests.
Descriptores (primarios) Estados Unidos; respiradores; equipo de protección individual
Descriptores (secundarios) trabajo en espacio confinado; mantenimiento preventivo; cubrecara; norma; resistencia a la respiración; inteligibilidad de la palabra; deficiencia de oxígeno
Tipo de documento F - Notas informativas, directrices prácticas, normas
Tema(s) Protección individual
Broad subject area(s)
Navegación por categoria(s) Respiratory protection
Personal protection