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Document ID (ISN)24262
CIS number 76-278
Year 1973
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Comte T.
Title Assessment of organism efficiency while working in breathing apparatus.
Bibliographic information Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants, United Kingdom. N74-26630/5WJ, National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22151, USA, May 1973. 19p. Illus. 24 ref. Price: Photocopy US-$4.00/Microfiche US-$1.45.
Abstract Translation of: Ocena wydolności organizmu podczas pracy w aparatach ochrony dróg oddechowych. Prace Centralnego instytutu ochrony pracy, Warszawa, Poland, 1971, Vol.21, No. 71, p.319-333. Illus. 24 ref. Report of a study on the physiological effects of respiratory protective equipment, in which heart rate, blood pressure, face-skin temperature, energy expenditure, etc. were measured. Field tests in 18 workers at 2 plants and bicycle ergometer tests in 7 students are described. The types of facemask used are presented and the results are shown in graph form and discussed. Conclusions are drawn on the design of equipment (improvements to reduce breathing resistance and mask weight, to increase field of vision, etc.) and on hours of work and work breaks for persons wearing various types of mask and doing different jobs.
Descriptors (primary) respirators; work capacity
Descriptors (secondary) energy expenditure; skin temperature; pulse rate; arterial blood pressure; assessment of physical capacity; breathing resistance; design of equipment; translation; ergometric tests
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Occupational physiology
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Respiratory protection