Personal protective equipment is used throughout the world as a principle means of protecting workers from physical, environmental, chemical and biological hazards – like falling objects, corrosive chemicals, fire, dangerous gasses, and even noise. But using faulty or improper equipment can cause serious injury, illness or death.
Using a checklist approach, PPE Made Easy presents the only comprehensive risk-assessment approach to PPE selection for industrial and fire protection applications. It identifies the hazards your workers face, helps select the right equipment from the range of PPE products available, and provides practical advice about the use and care of PPE.
Written by an internationally recognized expert in the field of protective clothing, PPE Made Easy is the practical alterative to reading hundreds of pages of technical data or reviewing extensive computer databases. Whether your workers need gloves, footwear, respirators, eyewear, helmets, earplugs or full-body, fire-resistant garments, this book will make it easy to make the choices that will keep your workers safe.
PPE Made Easy also includes the latest NIOSH respirator standards and looks ahead to some of the technological developments that may affect you and your workers in the years to come.
About the Author
Jeffrey O. Stull is president of International Personnel Protection Inc., which provides expertise on personal protection for end users and manufacturers in the United States and around the world. Mr. Stull gained much of his experience in the PPE field as president of TRI/Environmental Inc., an industrial hygiene and PPE testing company. He serves on the American Society for Testing and Materials’ F23 Committee on Protective Clothing and the D13 Committee on Textiles, the National Fire Protection Association Technical Correlating Committee on Fire and Emergency Medical Services Protective Clothing and Equipment, and the International Standards Organization Technical Committee 94 on Personal Protective Equipment. He has written over 100 articles, chapters and guides on the subject of protective clothing and equipment.