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  2. Positive pressure personnel suit - Wikipedia

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    The PPPS is a sophisticated variety of personal protective equipment (PPE), a type of hazmat suit, which is air-tight and designed for positive pressure to prevent contamination to the wearer even if the suit becomes damaged. BSL-4 cabinets and "Suit Laboratories" have special engineering and design features to prevent hazardous microorganisms ...

  3. Laboratory safety - Wikipedia

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    Hazardous chemicals present physical and/or health threats to workers in clinical, industrial, and academic laboratories. Laboratory chemicals include cancer-causing agents (carcinogens), toxins (e.g., those affecting the liver, kidney, and nervous system), irritants, corrosives, sensitizers, as well as agents that act on the blood system or damage the lungs, skin, eyes, or mucous membranes.

  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. Usage of personal protective equipment - Wikipedia

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    A doctor wearing personal protective equipment for treating patients with COVID-19. The use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is inherent in the theory of universal precaution, which requires specialized clothing or equipment for the protection of individuals from hazard. [1]

  6. Hierarchy of hazard controls - Wikipedia

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    Personal protective equipment (PPE) includes gloves, Nomex clothing, overalls, Tyvek suits, respirators, hard hats, safety glasses, high-visibility clothing, and safety footwear. PPE is often the most important means of controlling hazards in fields such as health care and asbestos removal.

  7. Infection prevention and control - Wikipedia

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    Personal protective equipment (PPE) is specialized clothing or equipment worn by a worker for protection against a hazard. The hazard in a health care setting is exposure to blood, saliva, or other bodily fluids or aerosols that may carry infectious materials such as Hepatitis C , HIV , or other blood borne or bodily fluid pathogen .

  8. Hazmat suit - Wikipedia

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    Plague doctor wearing a plague doctor costume A radiographer wearing an early hazmat suit in 1918 during World War I.. An early primitive form of the hazmat suit arose during bubonic plague epidemics, when European plague doctors of the 16th and 17th centuries wore distinctive costumes consisting of bird-like beak masks and large overcoats while treating victims of the bubonic plague. [1]

  9. Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992

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    compatibility of items of personal protective equipment where it is necessary to wear or use more than one item simultaneously. the making, review and changing of assessments in relation to the choice of personal protective equipment. the maintenance (including replacement and cleaning as appropriate) of personal protective equipment.