Clean Air? - Take Care! (continued)
| The United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive (HSE) estimates that 12,000 deaths each year could be due to past exposures to hazardous substances. In addition, a recent survey also commissioned by HSE showed that 29% of workers regarded themselves as regularly having to breathe in dust or fumes that could cause respiratory conditions and nearly half thought that the risks could be realistically be reduced. Those using respiratory protective equipment (RPE) are often still not adequately protected due to poor selection, use and maintenance of the equipment. And many fatalities in confined spaces/oxygen deficient atmospheres could have been prevented if the RPE was correctly selected and used. | ||
Airforce Compressed Air System
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Centurion are able to provide a wide range of respiratory protective equipment, including the Airforce Compressed Air System, the Magum Powered Respiratory System, a Negative Pressure System and the Max Powered Respiratory Helmet. Centurion is also able to give advice to users and specifiers of RPE, to enable them to correctly select and implement a full respiratory protection programme. |
Magnum Automatic Welding Shield
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As part of the Clean Air? Take Care! campaign, BSIF have produced films and informative tools, including a user friendly guide to RPE use, workplace poster and easy to follow selection guide, suitable for every small, medium and large industrial company and available from www.cleanairtakecare.org
The campaign is supported by the following organisations: British Occupational Hygiene Society |
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