From the course: Understanding Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
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Donning and doffing
From the course: Understanding Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Donning and doffing
- [Instructor] Another term that we hear safety and health professionals use when talking about PPE is donning and doffing. Donning is the act and procedure followed for putting on the PPE, and doffing is the term for removing the PPE. Proper donning and doffing of PPE is essential to its use. And while at first that might sound a little obvious to some of you, let's look at some specific cases. When donning a piece of PPE, it's certainly important to put it on correctly, and this will be specific to each piece of PPE and its instructions. Where the instructions tend to stop, however, is when it comes to properly putting on multiple pieces of PPE. In what order should the different pieces be put on? And what about taking it off? If I'm wearing multiple pieces of protective equipment like gloves, a respirator and coveralls that are providing a barrier between me and a chemical or a biological hazard, how do I take it off and…
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