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SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
The Warnings, Cautions, and Notes contained in this manual have the following
significance.
WARNING
Maintenance or operating procedures and techniques that may result in
personal injury, illness, or death if not carefully followed.
CAUTION
Maintenance or operating procedures and techniques that may result in
damage to equipment if not carefully followed.
NOTE
Maintenance or operating procedures and techniques or information
considered important enough to emphasize.
WARNINGS AND LIMITATIONS
• The employer is responsible for establishing that this respirator is
suitable for the user’s application.
• This respirator will reduce, but will not eliminate the inhalation of
contaminants. Some sensitive individuals may experience health
problems when exposed to even minute amounts of contaminants. This
respirator will not prevent health problems for those individuals. Where
suspected cancer-causing contaminants are present, positive-pressure
supplied air respirators will provide higher protection levels.
• SPERIAN cannot predict what will happen to this respirator in every
potential environment. Materials can be chemically attacked if exposed
to the wrong environment and may exhibit excessive corrosion or
other forms of damage. Permeation or penetration of gases, liquids,
or particles through the materials could be excessive. Extremes of
temperature might cause thermal degradation. Each of these things, or
a combination of them, could create conditions in which this SPERIAN
respirator would be dangerous to use.
• This respirator must be used in conjunction with a written respirator
program meeting the requirements of the OSHA Standard for
Respiratory Protection, 29 CFR 1910.134, available from the U.S.
Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The program must include procedures for evaluating air contaminants
and selecting appropriate respirators; procedures for proper use
of respirators; procedures for testing the facepiece-to-face fit of
respirators; procedures for cleaning, disinfecting, inspecting,
maintaining, and storing respirators; procedures for determining if
workers are physically and medically capable of wearing respirators;
and procedures for training employees in the use