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When firefighters don their PPE to respond to a call, they rarely think about the process that went into specifying every last detail of their ensemble. But PPE selection and specification cannot ...
The Department of Health and Social Care wants PPE Medpro to repay more than £120 million over an alleged breach of contract.
If errors in judgment and poor choices in the personal protective equipment (PPE) selection process were subject to the same intense after-the-fact scrutiny, deficiencies in situational awareness ...
Selecting the right PPE is a process in itself and has certain criteria to follow, including: Protection Level.
A public-interest group told a London court that the U.K. wasted millions of pounds on Covid-19 personal-protective equipment as it rushed into contracts at the start of the pandemic.
Chemists from India have proposed a way to sustainably recycle PPE equipment and create eco-friendly biofuel in the process.
PPE Medpro is also accused of supplying the gowns without CE markings, which shows if a product meets certain medical ...
Charlie Baker: Process to get PPE ‘enormously frustrating’ Boston, MA – 3/26/20 – Gov. Charlie Baker holds a press conference in the Gardner Auditorium at The State House on March 26, 2020.
Construction industry employers that do not already include fit testing as part of their PPE process may want to add this step even prior to the effective date of any final OSHA rule.
"If PPE must still be used, then the investigation is not formally closed." When a new machine or process is introduced at a facility, the plant safety review board and the joint safety committee ...
The process of decontaminating PPE has become a major controversy among providers since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Normally, a provider is not allowed to reprocess or decontaminate an N95 ...
Firehouse Magazine invited a cross-section of personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturers to join our latest roundtable discussion centering on firefighter safety issues.