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  2. Chemical protective clothing - Wikipedia

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    The EPA categorizes Chemical Protective Clothing into four levels, with Level A being the highest level of protection and Level D being the lowest level of protection. These levels are based on the amount of protection for the user’s skin and respiratory protection. [6] [2] Level A – The highest level of both respiratory and skin protection.

  3. Joint Service Lightweight Integrated Suit Technology - Wikipedia

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    Joint Firefighter Integrated Response Ensemble (J-FIRE) is a military protective suit used for firefighting in the CBRN and WMD environment. [3] J-FIRE utilizes the JSLIST and an aluminized firefighting proximity suit. The J-FIRE is designed to resist water and standard firefighting chemicals, while still providing CBRN protection to the user.

  4. Personal protective equipment - Wikipedia

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    Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury or infection. The hazards addressed by protective equipment include physical, electrical, heat, chemical, biohazards , and airborne particulate matter .

  5. NBC suit - Wikipedia

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    Smock of British military NBC suit in Disruptive Pattern Material. Overboots to be worn over combat boots. NBC stands for nuclear, biological, and chemical. [1] It is a term used in the armed forces and in health and safety, mostly in the context of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) clean-up in overseas conflict or protection of emergency services during the response to terrorism, though there ...

  6. Usage of personal protective equipment - Wikipedia

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    Protective suit is an umbrella term for any suit or clothing which protects the wearer. Any specific design of suit may offer protection against biological and chemical agents, particle radiation (alpha) and/or radiation (delta and gamma), and may offer flash protection in the case of bomb disposal suits .

  7. Cleanroom suit - Wikipedia

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    A cleanroom suit, clean room suit, or bunny suit, [1] [2] is an overall garment worn in a cleanroom, an environment with a controlled level of contamination. One common type is an all-in-one coverall worn by semiconductor and nanotechnology line production workers, technicians, and process / equipment engineers.

  8. MOPP (protective gear) - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Marines in MOPP 4 gear during the 2003 invasion of Iraq U.S. Army soldiers test MOPP 4 gear at the Yuma Proving Ground's Tropic Regions Test Center in Hawaii. MOPP (Mission Oriented Protective Posture; pronounced "mop") is protective gear used by U.S. military personnel in a toxic environment, for example, during a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear strike.

  9. Occupational exposure banding - Wikipedia

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    The Hierarchy of Occupational Exposure Limits, of which occupational exposure banding is a member. Occupational exposure banding, also known as hazard banding, is a process intended to quickly and accurately assign chemicals into specific categories (bands), each corresponding to a range of exposure concentrations designed to protect worker health.