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Filtration Efficiency: The Difference Between BFE, PFE, and VFE

Filtration Efficiency: The Difference Between BFE, PFE, and VFE

By now, you’re probably all too familiar with what it is like to wear a facemask. After the outbreak of COVID-19, these personal protective equipment (PPE) items are far more common than ever before.
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Protective Clothing for Crime Scene Cleanup

Protective Clothing for Crime Scene Cleanup

Scenarios such as a violent crime, suicide, a trauma scene, or an unattended death all require a lot of time and attention. People talk about the crime for days—weeks in some cases—and police officers investigate for months. Because of the furor that surrounds the crime and its investigation,...
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7 Ways to Protect Machinery and Workers

7 Ways to Protect Machinery and Workers

Accident prevention in the workplace tasks companies with adopting policies to ensure employees complete their shift safely. Despite evidence that construction sites, manufacturing plants, fabrication facilities, and others using heavy machinery sustain upwards of 340 million injuries annually,...
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Choosing the Right Automotive Paint Suit

Choosing the Right Automotive Paint Suit

Professional automotive painters understand that they have the potential to expose themselves (and property) to harmful chemicals. The chemicals and fumes that go into automotive paint have the potential to cause serious health effects.
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Chemical burns in the workplace: Prevention and Treatment

Chemical burns in the workplace: Prevention and Treatment

Chemicals are widely used across numerous industries but can cause serious harm if inhaled, ingested, or absorbed through the skin. Certain chemicals, including gasoline and lye, can even cause burns on the eyes, skin, mouth, or even internal organs. In severe cases, chemical burns can lead to...
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What is Sterility Assurance?

What is Sterility Assurance?

Sterility Assurance Level (SAL) is important in any production operation where there is a threat of contamination that could affect the product (in the case of pharmaceutical manufacturing), the health of a client, customer, or any subsequent user. In the U.S. National Library of Medicine/National...
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PFAS Safety: PPE and Mitigation Efforts

PFAS Safety: PPE and Mitigation Efforts

The convenient consumer products many families grew up with may cause serious human and environmental harm. People who handle items containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) remain at heightened risk. This group of chemicals does not break down quickly, and growing evidence indicates...
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How to Choose the Right Hair Restraint

How to Choose the Right Hair Restraint

Bouffant caps, mob caps, hairnets, pleated bouffants, and flat bouffants—are they the same thing? The short answer is no. While these garments all serve the same purpose of restraining hair, they are commonly confused.
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