Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
For health care workers and other people who works directly in contact with places or patients where viruses, bacteria, hazardous chemicals, etc. can affect them, must take proper protecting measures so that they can continue to help others and work without fearing their well-being. Protection of themselves is a priority for health care and other workers across the globe. In order to be safe, upright measures are required to keep infection at bay. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Face Masks and other hygiene means can be very effective in this kind of conditions. PPE consists of garments placed to protect health care workers or any other persons from getting infected.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has mentioned that personal protective equipment is to protect the health care workers or any other persons from getting infected. What PPE includes? Typically, Personal Protective Equipment includes face protection, goggles and mask or face shield, gloves, gown or coverall, head cover, and rubber boots. It’s a layer of protection that saves you while working as a health care specialist or in involved in waste management, or to get shield from airborne infections.
In the present situations where SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted between people through close contact and droplets and those who are in close contact with a COVID-19 patient or who care for patients are at risk of getting infected – PPE calms down this concern considerably. Guidelines for Personal Protective Equipment as outlined by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are:
Put on gloves, when working close to chemicals and/or body fluids.
Put on safety boots/covers if hazardous or infectious substances can splash on you.
Put on an apron/gown/coveralls- if hazardous or infectious substances can splash on you.
Also, one must be very careful while removing PPE to avoid contaminating themselves. Disposing of it properly in designated garbage bin is also crucial. Likely exposure is from touch or surfaces, splashes or sprays, or large volumes of bodily fluids, which may percolate via the clothing. You can choose or determine the Personal Protective Equipment according to the category of isolation of the patient being treated.
Disposable Face Masks
At American Paperwear, you will get a wide range of face coverings and face masks at very low cost. Disposable Face Masks here have either a 95% or 98% bacterial filtration efficiency. Even if you are maintaining social distance it is being advised to wear face masks to keep yourself protected.
Particulate Face Masks
Particulate face masks, a type of respirator, are more or less like surgical masks in shape. Still, particulate face masks are intended to protect you as much as they are intended to protect others, so they tend to be closer fitting, with less pleats, and may contain a (filtered) exhalation valve.
