Risk mitigation personal protection equipment

COMPONENTS OF RISK MITIGATION - CONSIDERATION OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT... 

Where other risk reduction methods cannot adequately mitigate the risk from a hazard, incorporate special procedures and training. Procedures may prescribe the use of personal protective equipment. 

One final noteworthy point relates to health and safety. Appropriate risk mitigation should always be in place before any type of miUing and powder handling is carried out, with personal protective equipment and properly extracted work areas being imperative - such precautions are particularly important in the case of jet-milling and for jet-milled powders, where the size distribution contains a significant quantity of fines. 

Exposure. With the establishment of cumulative risk assessment requirements of the FQPA, there is much more of a need to focus on exposure. Prior to FQPA registrants could often live with the worst case result of an individual exposure assessment. Hazards could be mitigated with additional testing and/or label recommendations for additional personal protective equipment. Cumulative assessment and a certain total allowable risk shows that worst-case exposure analyses soon cause the risk cup to overflow. Prudent long-term strategy for a... 

Numerous security devices may reduce the risk for assaults against workers and facilitate the identification and apprehension of perpetrators. These include closed-circuit cameras, alarms, two-way mirrors, card-key access systems, panic-bar doors locked from the outside only, and trouble lights or geographic locating devices in taxicabs and other mobile workplaces. Personal protective equipment such as body armor has been used effectively by public safety personnel to mitigate the effects of workplace violence. For example, the lives of more than 1800 police officers have been saved by Kevlar vests. 

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