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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. the provision of accommodation for personal protective equipment. the provision of information, instruction and training.
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.
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 .
Personal protective equipment, against injury or infection; Palmoplantar erythema, peeling of skin from the palms; Perturbed physics ensemble, or perturbed parameter ensemble, climate ensembles in climate change research; Polyphenyl ether, a class of polymers; Poly(p-phenylene oxide), a high-temperature thermoplastic
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.
Applications for monitoring of glucose, [45] [46] [47] alcohol, and lactate [45] or blood oxygen, breath monitoring, heartbeat, heart rate and its variability, electromyography (EMG), electrocardiogram (ECG) and electroencephalogram (EEG), body temperature, pressure (e.g. in shoes), sweat rate or sweat loss, levels of uric acid and ions – e.g ...
In sports medicine, a preparticipation physical evaluation (PPE) is a physical examination of an athlete. [1] PPEs screen for a variety of conditions, including athletic heart syndrome [ 2 ] and risk of sudden cardiac death .