End-of-service-life indicator ESLI : A system that warns the wearer of a respirator of the approach of the end of adequate protection e. Exhalation valve: A device that allows exhaled air to leave a respiratory device and prevents outside air from entering through the valve. Designed to make a gas-tight or dust-tight fit with the face, it includes the headbands, exhalation valve s , and connections for an air-purifying device. Filter: A medium used in respirators to remove solid or liquid particles from the airstream entering the respiratory enclosure.
This procedure should be done each time a respirator is used. Fit factor: A measure of the effectiveness of the facepiece to face seal determined by a quantitative fit test. It is the ratio of test agent concentration outside a respirator to the test agent concentration inside the respirator. Fit test: The use of a protocol to qualitatively or quantitatively evaluate the fit of a respirator on an individual. See Qualitative fit test and Quantitative fit test.
Forced expiratory volume in one second FEV1 : Volume of air that can be forcibly expelled during the first second of expiration. Forced vital capacity FVC : Maximal volume of air that can be exhaled forcefully after a maximal inspiration. Fume: Solid particles generated by condensation from the gaseous state, generally after volatilization from a melted substance e. Gases and vapors are not fumes. Gas: A substance that is in the gaseous state at room temperature and pressure. Hazardous atmosphere: Any atmosphere that is oxygen-deficient or that contains a toxic or disease-producing contaminant.
An IDLH atmosphere poses an immediate hazard to life, such as being oxygen-deficient containing less than Inhalation valve: A device that allows respirable air to enter the facepiece and prevents exhaled air from leaving the facepiece through the intake opening. Loose-fitting facepiece: A respiratory inlet covering designed to form a partial seal with the face.
Mist: An aerosol consisting of liquid particles generated by condensation of a substance from the gaseous to the liquid state. NaCl: Sodium chloride; a solid particle commonly used for quantitative fit testing. Negative-pressure respirator: A respirator in which the air pressure inside the facepiece is negative during inhalation with respect to the ambient air pressure outside the respirator.
Nuisance dust: Innocuous dust not causing a serious pathological condition. Odor threshold: The lowest concentration of an air contaminant that can be detected by smell. Particulate matter: A suspension of fine solid or liquid particles in air, such as dust, fog, fume, mist, smoke, or sprays. Particulate matter suspended in air is commonly known as an aerosol. Positive-pressure respirator: A respirator in which the pressure inside the respiratory inlet covering exceeds the ambient air pressure outside the respirator.
Powered air-purifying respirator PAPR : An air-purifying respirator that uses a blower to force the ambient air through air-purifying elements to the respiratory inlet covering.
Pressure-demand respirator: A positive-pressure atmosphere-supplying respirator that admits breathing air to the facepiece when the positive pressure is reduced inside the facepiece by inhalation. Protection factor PF : The overall protection afforded by a certain type of respirator as defined by the ratio of the concentration of contaminant outside a face-mask to that inside the equipment under conditions of use. For example, if a half-mask respirator has a protection factor of 10, it may be used for protection in atmospheres with a contaminant concentration up to 10 times the permissible exposure limit PEL.
Pulmonary function test: Tests requiring use of an approved spirometer including forced vital capacity FVC , the maximum amount of air that can be expired from the lung after full inhalation, and forced expiratory volume after one second FEV1 , the amount of air forcibly expired in one second after full inhalation. Qualitative fit test QLFT : A test procedure to determine the effectiveness of the seal between the face-mask and the wearer's face.
Quantitative fit test QNFT : The measurement of the effectiveness of a respirator seal in a test atmosphere inside a booth. This test is performed by numerically measuring the amount of leakage into the respirator see Fit factor. Resistance: Opposition of the flow of air, as through a canister, cartridge, or particulate filter. Respirator: A device designed to protect the wearer from inhalation of harmful atmospheres.
Respiratory inlet covering: A portion of a respirator that forms the protective barrier between the wearer's respiratory tract and an air-purifying device or breathing air source or both. It may be a facepiece, helmet, suit, or a mouthpiece respirator with nose clamp. RPE: Respiratory protection equipment.
Definitions xv Self-contained breathing apparatus SCBA : A respirator designed to provide the wearer with clean air independent of the contaminated surrounding air. The wearer carries a supply of approved compressed air contained in a gas cylinder.
SCBA units are generally restricted to types equipped with pressure-demand regulators that maintain positive pressure in a full face-mask. Service life: The length of time during which a respirator, filter, sorbent, or other respiratory equipment provides adequate protection to the wearer.
Simulated protection factor SPF : Surrogate measure of the workplace protection provided by a respirator determined in a laboratory simulation that has been shown to have a stated correlation to workplace protection factors. Smoke: Aerosols, gases, and vapors resulting from incomplete combustion. Sorbent: A material contained in air-purifying respirators that removes toxic gases and vapors from the inhaled air. Supplied-air respirator SAR : A hose-mask respirator equipped with a facepiece, breathing tube, safety harness, and safety line.
Air is supplied through a hose connected to a compressed-air cylinder or air compressor not designed to be carried by the user. Test subject: A person wearing a respirator for quantitative fit testing. Threshold limit value TLV : A list published yearly by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists ACGIH as a guide for exposure concentrations that a healthy individual normally can tolerate for eight hours a day, five days a week, without harmful effects.
Gaseous concentrations are listed as parts per million ppm by volume. Tight-fitting facepiece: A respiratory inlet covering that forms a complete seal with the face. Vapor: The gaseous state of a substance that is solid or liquid at room temperature and pressure. Workplace protection factor WPF : A protection factor provided in the workplace, under the conditions of that workplace, by a properly functioning respirator that is correctly selected, fit tested, worn, and used.
This Page Intentionally Left Blank 1 Respiratory Hazards and Evaluation The type and extent of respiratory hazards present in the modern industrial environment dictate the selection of proper respirators.
Like clean air, many of these hazards are invisible and odorless. Breathing or respiratory hazards include dusts, fumes, mists; gases and vapors; and oxygen-deficient atmospheres. Knowing the characteristics of each hazard helps us understand why respiratory protection is so important. Because several good texts are available on this subject, an overview only of respiratory hazards encountered in industrial workplaces and the various methods of evaluating them are provided here.
The main categories of hazards are shown in Figure 1. In the case of respirators, we are mainly concerned with chemical hazards. Any chemical that has the capacity to produce injury or illness when taken into the body is called a toxic agent.
In order for an agent to develop toxic activities, it has to enter the body, be distributed to the body, and react with components of the body. The human body has the capacity to eliminate ingested or inhaled noxious agents by vomiting, coughing, and excretion. Healthy skin, for example, will not absorb water-soluble substances; therefore, only substances that dissolve in body fluids can be toxic. Lead sulfide, for example, cannot be dissolved either in water or in body fluids, and is therefore not toxic, whereas other lead compounds, which can be dissolved, have a toxic action on the body.
Another example is the iron compounds. Taken in large amounts, they are toxic; however, because they are corrosive and locally irritating in the stomach, they will be expelled from the stomach by vomiting before they can be absorbed. In summary, in order to become toxic, an agent must be absorbed into the body except some particulate materials, e. For example, all lead compounds are inherently toxic; however, lead sulfide will not dissolve in body fluids unless taken orally.
A hazardous chemical, however, can be defined as carrying with it the high probability that its use will cause biological effects in the body. Any given chemical agent may have intrinsic toxicity, but it may not actually represent a health hazard unless the amount or the concentration that enters the body is sufficient to cause injury. This means that at the same room temperature, much more trichloroethylene will evaporate and its concentration in the inhaled air will be much higher than would be the concentration of perchloroethylene vapors.
The toxicity of both compounds is the same; however, the hazard associated with perchloroethylene is lower because the concentration of its vapor in the inhaled air will be, under equal conditions, much lower.
By inhalation through the respiratory tract By ingestion into the digestive tract through eating or swallowing By contact with, or absorption through, the skin As far as the use of respirators is concerned, the most important route of entry is by inhalation.
Hence, this mechanism is discussed in detail. The lungs have an extremely large surface area approximately m2, including the alveolar surface and the blood capillary network surface , which provides a contact for the toxic materials. The primary function of the respiratory system is to provide a means for exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide Figure 1. Inhaled air enters the respiratory tract and is transported to the alveoli of the lungs.
The alveoli are in close contact with blood capillaries and, because of concentration differences, oxygen diffuses from the alveoli to blood and carbon dioxide diffuses from blood in the capillaries to the alveoli.
Once oxygen reaches blood, it combines with hemoglobin in the blood and is transported through the bloodstream to the cells. In the cells, oxygen is released from blood to provide food, which is necessary for cell life. In return, cells produce carbon dioxide as a waste byproduct. This carbon dioxide is released into the bloodstream and transported back to the lungs, where it diffuses into the lungs and is exhaled out of the body.
The large surface area and the minute separation between the alveoli and the capillary system make the lungs an efficient organ for absorbing toxicants.
These toxicants can be in the form of gases, solids, or liquid aerosols. Many toxicants are capable of being transported from the lungs to other parts of the body and exerting their toxic effects. The lungs are also involved in excreting toxicants that have entered the body through the skin or have been ingested.
Clearance of toxicants that reach the respiratory system is vitally important to proper respiratory function. Breakdown of these clearance mechanisms can have adverse effects on one's health.
The nasopharyngeal area consists of the nose, pharynx, and larynx. This internal portion is composed of two wedge-shaped cavities separated by a septum. The internal portion is covered by a thick mucous membrane that warms and moistens inhaled air.
The nose filters in two ways: 1 the hairs that can be seen in the nose filter out the coarsest foreign materials, and 2 air currents pass over the moist mucous membranes in curved pathways and deposit fine particles against the wall.
The trapped particles are subsequently carried to the pharynx and swallowed. The pharynx is a musculomembranous tube, five inches in length, extending from the base of the skull to the esophagus. The pharynx is divided into three parts: nasal, oral, and laryngeal. The larynx, or voice box, connects the pharynx with the trachea. Its opening is at the base of the tongue. The larynx consists of nine cartilages united by muscles and ligaments.
The pitch of the sound is determined by the shape and tension of the vocal cords. The voice is refined by the nose, mouth, and pharynx, as well as the sinuses, which act as sounding boards and resonating chambers.
Respiration starts when air is inhaled through the nose. The main function of the nasopharynx is to warm and moisten air and to filter and remove the largest particles larger than 10 mm from the air inhaled. The surfaces of the nose, sinus, and upper bronchi are covered with mucous membranes.
These membranes secrete a fluid called mucus that is produced continuously and drains slowly into the throat. The mucus provides heat and humidity to the air chambers and thus warms incoming air. In addition to mucus, the membrane is coated with cilia hairlike filaments , which wave back and forth.
Millions of cilia line the nasopharyngeal area and aid in cleaning incoming air and removing deposited materials. The tracheobronchial area consists of the trachea, bronchi, and bronchiole. The trachea, or windpipe, is a cylindrical tube about four to five inches in length, consisting of cartilage separated by fibrous and muscular tissue.
The trachea functions as a simple passageway for air passing to the lungs. The bronchi consist of two separate passages that split off at the base of the trachea. The right bronchus differs from the left in that it is shorter and wider and takes a more vertical course.
Because of this, foreign material tends to follow the right bronchus more often than the left. The bronchi become narrower as they approach the lungs. With this narrowing, the cartilage of the bronchi tends to be reduced and disappears at the bronchiole. The epithelial lining of the trachea loses its cilia and decreases in size. The respiratory bronchiole are tubular with lengths of approximately one-half inch.
Many bronchiole branch off the bronchi. The walls are void of cartilage and contain only limited cilia. The tracheobronchial areas serve as conducting airways between the nasopharynx and the alveoli, where the gas exchange takes place. As in the nasopharynx, the tracheobronchial passageways are lined with cilia and coated with a thin layer of mucus. The surface of these airways serves as a mucociliary escalator, moving particles from the deep lung to the oral cavities so they can be swallowed or excreted.
The pulmonary section consists of the alveolar duct, the alveolar sac, and the alveolus. Gas exchange takes place here between alveoli and blood capillaries. Particles less than 1 mm in size are deposited in this area. Figure 1. Changes in volume and flow are recorded using a spirometer, which determines impairment to the respiratory system. The four primary lung volumes are: 1. Tidal volume TV. The volume of gas inspired or expired during each respiratory cycle.
Normally only a small volume of the lung is ventilated. The tidal volume is normally ml. Inspiratory reserve volume IRV. The maximum volume that can be forcibly inspired after a normal inspiration.
Typically this is ml for men. Respiratory Hazards and Evaluation 7 5 Vital capacity 4 Respiratory volume 3 Tidal volume Resting respiratory level Expiratory reserve volume 2 1 Residual volume Figure 1. Expiratory reserve volume ERV. The maximum amount of air that can be forcibly expired after normal expiration. For men this is normally ml. Residual volume RV. The amount of air remaining in the lungs after a maximum expiratory effort.
Typically ml. Other volumes that make up several of the primary ones are: 1. Total lung capacity TLC. The sum of all four volumes listed previously. Inspiratory capacity IC. Vital capacity VC. Functional residual capacity FRC. The normal volume at the end of passive exhalation i. The flow of air from the lungs can be used to diagnose changes in the lung. If the subject inhales and exhales maximally, the forced vital capacity FVC and forced expiratory volume at one second FEV1 can be recorded.
The FVC is the maximal volume of air that can be exhaled forcefully after a maximal inspiration. The FEV1 is the volume of air that can be forcibly expelled during the first second of expiration. Inhalation of toxicants may change the ability of the lungs to move air in and out because of obstruction or restriction of air passages. Partial pressure of carbon dioxide Partial pressure of oxygen pH of arterial blood Increased partial pressure of carbon dioxide in arterial blood increases respiration, whereas decreased partial pressure of carbon dioxide decreases the respiration rate.
On the other hand, decreased partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood increases respiration. A low arterial pH increases the respiration rate. Pain, sudden cold, and other sensory stimuli can elicit respiratory changes. Age is another factor influencing respiration rate. Body temperature affects the rate of respiration; increased body heat increases respiration.
Inhaled contaminants that adversely affect the lungs fall into two major categories: 1. Gases and vapors. Invisible contaminants mixed in the air. Gases are substances that become airborne at room temperature. Gases are often produced by chemical processes and high-heat operations.
They drift quickly and undetected from their source. Nitrogen, chlorine, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, Respiratory Hazards and Evaluation 2. Vapors are formed when liquids or solids evaporate, typically occurring with solvents, paints, or refining activities. Particulate matter. Inhaled particulates can take many forms, commonly called aerosols. An aerosol is a suspension of solid particles or liquid droplets in a gaseous medium.
There are at least three forms of particulate materials that we must be concerned with:. An aerosol created when solid material is vaporized at high temperatures and then cooled. As it cools, it condenses into extremely small particles, generally less than 1 micron in diameter. Fumes can result from operations such as welding, cutting, smelting, or casting molten metals. An aerosol consisting of mechanically produced solid particles derived from breaking up larger particles.
Dusts generally have a larger particle size when compared to fumes. Operations such as sanding, grinding, crushing, drilling, machining, or sand blasting are the worst dust producers. Dust particles are often found in the harmful size range of 0.
Mists can be created by operations such as spraying, plating, or boiling, and by mixing or cleaning jobs. Gases and Vapors Toxic gases and vapors may be inhaled and distributed throughout the entire respiratory system. While the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide can take place only deep in the lungs at the alveoli, intake of toxic gases and vapors can take place anywhere in the respiratory tract.
The diffusion of these toxic materials is the driving force behind the interaction of these gases and vapors within different regions of the respiratory tract. Usually there is a very small concentration of the toxicant in the tissues, while there are higher concentrations in the inspired air.
Diffusion is the phenomenon of a material moving from a high concentration to a low concentration. Thus, the concentration differential allows toxic gases and vapors to move from air to the tissues of the respiratory tract. The solubility of these toxic materials in water greatly influences the relative toxicity and the site of reaction in the respiratory tract.
Very soluble gases, such as ammonia or sulfur dioxide, are absorbed in the nasopharyngeal area, whereas other gases, such as nitrogen dioxide and organic solvent vapors, are less soluble in water. The latter do not readily dissolve in the mucous membrane and are able to reach lower into the airways and can even reach the alveolar area, resulting in their diffusion into the bloodstream.
In this latter category of toxicant, the direct effect may not be on the lungs; rather, their diffusion into the bloodstream may mean that other organs will be affected. Those toxicants that are very 10 Practical Guide to Respirator Usage in Industry water-soluble react with the mucous layer of the respiratory tract. Because the mucous layer is always being renewed and removed by ingestion or carried to the mouth by the cilia, dissolution in this layer detoxifies the gas or vapor.
The lining of the upper portion of the respiratory tract consists of mainly goblet and ciliated cells. Goblet cells are responsible for secreting mucus. If the toxic gas or vapor is capable of interfering with the goblet cells, then the rate of mucous secretion is affected.
Once the toxicant has penetrated the mucous lining of the upper airways highly water-soluble materials , then the goblet and ciliated cells can be attacked. It appears that ciliated cells are more prone to the effects of toxic gases and vapors. Cilia may be lost, and their cells may even die. This results in a lack of cilia in the area, and the process that involves removing foreign materials can be greatly affected.
If the toxic gas or vapor is not very soluble in water, it will most likely reach the lower airways alveoli of the lungs. Once this occurs, intake of the gas or vapor is the same as that for oxygen i. The alveoli are separated from the bloodstream by a very thin lining, and there are usually lower concentrations of the toxicant in the blood than in the alveoli; thus, via diffusion, gases and vapors are capable of moving into the bloodstream.
Even though toxic gases or vapors reach the lower airways, it does not mean that they will pass into the blood and not have toxic effects on the lower portion of the respiratory tract. Certain regions of the lower airway are more affected by gases and vapors that act directly on the lung. For example, ozone affects the region between the bronchiole and the alveolus more so than other areas of the body. The respiratory system may also be exposed to toxic gases and vapors through its function in the excretory process.
Vapors from organic compounds, such as benzene and toluene, are excreted through the lungs. If the metabolism of these vapors to more water-soluble metabolites is slow, then high levels of vapors may be exhaled. The toxicants may then accumulate in a high concentration in the lungs, resulting in pulmonary damage.
Particulate Material The site of deposition in the respiratory tract plays a major role in the toxic effect of the inhaled aerosol. Several factors determine the site of deposition of the aerosol, namely size, density, shape, and tendency to aggregate.
Particle size plays the major role in determining where the aerosol will settle out in the respiratory tract. Usually, the inhaled particles are not uniform in size and shape. For simplicity, we consider all particles to be spheres of unit density, and the size distribution of the aerosol approximates a lognormal distribution. We usually refer to the particle size of the aerosol as the median or geometric mean particle size. Also, reference is usually made to the aerodynamic diameter of a particle that takes into account the density of the particle and the aerodynamic drag.
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