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Respiratory Protective Equipment - Resources
Publications
Training, tools and information
- RPE selector tool – developed by Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives in partnership with HSE
- DVD film - A guide to the introduction and use of RPE available as a priced publication
The DVD includes:
- Protect yourself: RPE user guide – Visual demonstration of how RPE can protect the wearer, the importance of getting a good fit and the consequences of not fitting or maintaining RPE
- Introducing and managing RPE in the workplace – How a business coped with the introduction of RPE to protect their workers and how management went about achieving buy-in and cooperation from their employees to use RPE correctly. This is a real-life demonstration of HSE research on the key actions employers can take to get effective use of RPE by the workforce
- Inspecting a respiratory protective programme – Walk through of a typical HSE inspection focusing on RPE at a foundry site. It shows an HSE inspector’s use of observation and discussions with the employer and employees to establish whether the use of RPE is being managed properly
- Clean Air? - Take Care! – A campaign by the BSIF in partnership with HSE aimed at reducing occupational respiratory disease. Follow the link for campaign material including:
- DVD’s - Are you breathing clean air at work and Lung Disease caused by work – You can prevent it
- PowerPoint presentation - Helping you to correctly select and use respirators
- Campaign leaflet and poster
- Is your mask protecting you? - INDG 460
- Using filtering facepieces (poster)
- RPE pre event form
- RPE after event form
- RPE Toolbox talk Powepoint presentation
Research
