Respiratory Protective Equipment - Resources

Publications

• Respiratory protective equipment at work: A practical guide (HSG 53)
• Fit testing of respiratory protective equipment facepieces (OC 282)

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

• Factors influencing the implementation of RPE programmes in the workplace (RR798)
• Review of occupational hygiene reports on suitability of respiratory protective equipment (RR746)
• Respiratory protective equipment supply services
• Review of fit test pass criteria for Filtering Facepieces Class 3 (FFP3) respirators (RR1029)