Use Personal Protective Equipment

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Use Personal Protective Equipment in Right Way

• CBD Armour

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PPE

• Personal Protective Equipment's (PPEs) are
  protective gears designed to safe guard the
  health of workers by minimizing the exposure to
  a biological agent.
• PPE can be classified into categories
• Eye and face protection
• Hand protection
• Body protection
• Respiratory protection
• Hearing protection.

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Eye and Face Protection

• Eye protection is achieved by wearing eyewear
  specifically designed to reduce the risk of
  exposure to dangerous viruses.
• Safety eye glasses Face shields are required to
  protect eye.
• Full face protection is achieved by wearing face
  shields.

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Hand Protection

• Appropriate selection of gloves is essential to
  protecting hands.
• Gloves degrade over time, so they should be
  replaced as necessary to ensure adequate
  protection.
• Gloves can be categories as Light latex, vinyl or
  nitrile gloves, Natural rubber latex, Light to
  heavy chemical resistant gloves, Insulated gloves
  and Wire mesh gloves.

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Body Protection

• Cotton-polyester blend protects skin and clothing
  from dirt, inks, non-hazardous chemicals,
  biological, radiation and physical hazards.
• Barrier coats must be worn when working with
  infectious materials. Barrier coats can be
  autoclaved by placing the coats in a pan and
  placing an additional pan of water in the
  autoclave.

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Respiratory Protection

• Respiratory protective equipment is only used as
  a last line of defense, Proper fitting and use
  is key to respirator efficacy.
• Protection against large droplets and splashes is
  easy with
• Surgical masks
• FFP2/N95 respirators
• FFP3/N99 respirators

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PPE for COVID-19

• PPE does reduce rates of disease transmission and
  protects you from getting infected.
• It is essential that medical staff understand the
  purpose of PPE and its role as part of a system
  to reduce disease transmission from patients to
  staff and other patients.
• It is equally important that staff use it
  appropriately to preserve what may be limited
  stocks to ensure there is sufficient supply for
  necessary use throughout the epidemic surge.

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