Misuse of protective equipment should pay attention

1 personal protective equipment can be worn or not

Personal protective equipment can eliminate or reduce the impact of occupational hazards on the health of workers. The Occupational Disease Prevention Act stipulates that employers must provide laborers with protective equipment that meets the requirements and that workers are obliged to wear protective equipment.

2 There is no odor in the workshop, you can not wear personal protective equipment

Many harmful gases are colorless, odorless, odorless, and have no warning or feeling. Even if it is odorous, there are limitations and individual differences in the sensory organs' perception of the outside world. Therefore, excessive belief in feelings may lead to occupational poisoning.

3 gauze mask can be used to prevent dust

Ordinary gauze masks cannot be used as dust masks. The gauze masks we use today are cheap, sweat-absorbent in the summer, and warm in the winter. However, such masks (even if they are 16 layers thick) cannot protect against the hazards of respiratory dust from pneumoconiosis. Special dust masks are required for dust protection.

4 medical masks used to prevent poison

Medical masks can prevent disease from spreading through droplets, but they cannot filter toxic gases. For different poisons, use different respirator masks. General volatile organic gases can use activated carbon respirator.

5 Dust masks are washed and reused

Dust mask filter material can not be washed. The high-efficiency filters used in dust masks are usually non-woven materials, and some rely on electrostatic charges on fibers to filter respiratory dust. After washing, the microstructure of the filter material is impaired, cracks and holes that are invisible to the naked eye occur, electrostatic charges are also greatly lost, and the filtration performance is severely degraded.

China Labor Insurance Network