- Engineering controls like using a filtered ventilation system in indoor work areas.
- Administrative controls, like limiting the amount of time your employees work outside, if this is possible.
- Provide employees with respiratory protective equipment, such as disposable filtering dust masks.
- If you have employees working outside in areas that have been designated as “Unhealthy,” “Very Unhealthy,” or “Hazardous,” be sure to provide them with approved respiratory protective equipment.
- Completely cover the outside of the respirator with both hands.
- Do not push the respirator against your face.
- With your hands in place on the surface of the respirator, exhale or breathe out sharply.
- If you feel air blowing on your face or eyes, the respirator needs to be adjusted.
- To adjust, repeat the user instructions on how to put on the respirator.
- When the respirator is a good fit, you will not feel any air blowing on your face or eyes.
- If you can’t get a good fit, try a different model.
- Completely cover the outside of the respirator with both hands.
- Do not push the respirator against your face.
- With your hands in place on the surface of the respirator, inhale or breathe in sharply. The respirator should collapse slightly.
- If air leaks between the face and the face-seal of the respirator, the respirator needs to be adjusted. To adjust, repeat the user instructions on how to put on the respirator.
- When the respirator is a good fit, you will not feel any air leaking between the face and the face-seal.
- If you can’t get a good fit, try a different model.
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