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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"personal protective equipment"”.
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Simulating COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment Use in Acute Care Hospitals
America faced crippling shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020-2021. In response to these recent shortages, policy makers, emergency responders, public health agencies and private healthcare facilities are investing significant time and money to …
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Supply Chain Resilience for Healthcare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the Federal Government
… COVID-19, low-cost medical supplies such as personal protective equipment (PPE), which typically requires less skilled labor, had been produced in China and Malaysia and imported to the United States. However, COVID-19 created an overwhelming shortage in medical supplies globally, forcing the …
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Obstacle crossing behaviors in firefighters: effects of personal protective equipment and firefighter activity
… may provide a better understanding of how equipment and varying degrees of fatigue contribute to the risk of STFs and their associated injuries, and may assist fire departments in making informed decisions when outfitting their firefighters.
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Identification, elimination and reduction of barriers to the effective use of respiratory personal protective equipment
… and reduction of barriers to the use of personal respiratory protective equipment (RPE) in the workplace to reduce and prevent occupational inhalation disease. Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE) is widely used in industry, health, emergency response, military settings and many other …
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Personal Protective Equipment and Laboratory Safety Training: The Roles of Attitude, Subjective Norm, and Perceived Control
… safety practices, including the use of personal protective equipment, can reduce the number and severity of laboratory accidents, thus reducing the risk of chemical, biological and radiologic exposure for workers and for the public. Improving laboratory safety training should also result …
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A mixed methods approach to modeling personal protective equipment supply chains for infectious disease outbreak response
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical to the protection of healthcare workers responding to infectious disease outbreaks. The ability of the PPE supply chain to provide adequate and consistent supply when there is a large spike in demand has not been well-considered. Humanitarian …
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Understanding South African herbicide workers’ residual take-home exposure risks from personal protective equipment cleaning and storing practices
… workers who spray pesticides take contaminated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and work clothes home, those items pose a risk of cross-contamination. Agriculture employers are recommended to make facilities available for workers to clean and store contaminated items at the workplace to …
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Increasing Compliance of Personal Protective Equipment S election and Use for Isolation Precautions Among RNs & NAs on a Med-Surg Unit
… confident in selecting the appropriate type of personal protective equipment (PPE), and the use in technique when putting on (donning) and removing (doffing) PPE based on the level of isolation precautions required for the patient being cared for.</p> <p><strong>Project Purpose:</strong> The …
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What airway and vascular access skills can be performed whilst wearing the NHS issued chemical, biological, radiation, and nuclear personal protective equipment?
… of chemical, biological, radiation and nuclear personal protective equipment (CBRN-PPE) across the National Health Service (NHS), in 2007, represented an increase in the capacity to treat patients following a CBRN incident. However, little was known on what impact the NHS CBRN-PPE would have on …
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Product Evaluation and Process Improvement Guidelines for the Personal Protective Equipment Manufacturers based on Human Factors, NIOSH Guidelines and System Safety Principles
… using test methods such as the Static Oven, Fire Equipment Evaluator, and Radiant Panel, methods which represent controlled environment test conditions. The Fire-Eye device was also evaluated in realistic fire environment created in an ISO burn room by conducting several tests using different …
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Influence of risk perceptions and social context on working for water herbicide sprayers' Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) compliance in the Western Cape of South Africa
… tools and the inadequate or lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) use. In addition, underlying factors such as poor nutrition and immune system status might increase the risk to develop acute or chronic illness related to herbicide exposure. The Working for Water (WfW) programme …
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The Effect of Cockpit Noise on the Temporary Threshold Shift of Cessna 172SP Flight Instructors
… threshold shift would indicate that hearing personal protective equipment is working properly. This study used sound-level measurements, and audiometric testing, together with survey data to determine whether or not flight instructors were at risk for potential hearing impairment due to …
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Perceptions regarding occupational injuries by employees at Letaba Hospital in Mopani District, Limpopo Province
… needle pricks due to negligence in the use of Personal Protective Equipments. It emerged in the findings that occupational injuries can cause death at times. The study also revealed that negative perceptions and experiences of the employees towards the use of Personal Protective Equipment are …
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Farm safety and health needs among limited resource farmersin selected counties of North Carolina
… of farmers and farm workers towards farm equipment and its safe use are major concerns. Farm safety education and research are strongly needed to prevent or reduce farm injuries. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate health and safety problems among limited resource farmers …
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Wildland Firefighter Health and Safety
… fire suppression, it alone is not enough, so personal protective equipment (PPE) is also used maximize safety. The majority of specifications used in construction of this equipment considers only the external environment and does not consider the individual as part of the environment. The …
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Wildland Firefighter Health and Safety
… fire suppression, it alone is not enough, so personal protective equipment (PPE) is also used maximize safety. The majority of specifications used in construction of this equipment considers only the external environment and does not consider the individual as part of the environment. The …
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Industrial heat stress : Using ice slurry ingestion as a practical approach to reducing heat strain in workers
… of the working environment, wearing of personal protective equipment designed to cool, heat stress indices and/or hydration regimens. Despite these interventions, personnel still experience heat stress related illnesses. Consequently, the overall aim of the thesis was to quantify the …
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Extra robotic legs for augmenting human payload and positioning capabilities
… response personnel who are encumbered by their Personal Protective Equipment. Essentially a backpack-with-legs, the XRL system must bear large loads during operation, but also requires a proprioceptive transmission to allow for close physical interaction with the human operator. The linkage and …
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An analysis of foot-ankle-leg fractures sustained by Warfighters and PMHS in the under-body blast environment
… through design improvements to vehicles and personal protective equipment (PPE) would have substantial preventative and mitigating effects that would benefit Warfighters and would reduce societal and military costs.
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A importância do uso de Equipamentos de Proteção Individual (EPIs) nos arquivos pelos estagiários do curso de Arquivologia da UFPB e UEPB
… of the Paraíba know the importance of using personal protective equipment. Methodologically the research was characterized as descriptive and exploratory with a questionnaire, and review literature. The students Paraibans study participants have shown through the results that acknowledge the …
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