This article offers a refresher on what personal protective equipment (PPE) is, how to choose the right PPE and how to wear and remove it safely. PPE aims to improve staff and patient safety, but self ...

The best way to prevent costly injuries is to promote safe work practices, provide the necessary PPE, and do everything possible to encourage wearer compliance. You painstakingly identified all the ...

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11th attacks, companies were straining to fill orders for emergency supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) to the World Trade Center and Pentagon sites. The ...

NHS frontline staff have been told to 'wear aprons' to treat coronavirus patients and reuse PPE as supplies at some hospitals are set to run out this weekend. New guidance was issued last night amid ...

Limerick-based businessman Sean O’Carroll is using a machine normally used to cut corrugated paper to make heavy-duty polythene aprons for medics. Sean O’Carroll with one of his PPE aprons (IPS ...

Two Cork cousins have developed a compostable PPE apron to reduce plastic usage in the healthcare industry. Dr Mary O'Riordan and Lisa O’Riordan developed their 'guilt-free' HaPPE Earth apron in ...

For the safety equipment industry, as for the nation and world, the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and subsequent events had an immediate and lasting effect. In the aftermath of the attacks, companies ...

The apron also reduces the carbon footprint of a standard apron by more than 75% through the use of local transport and manufacturing. Lisa O’Riordan, Co-founder HaPPE Earth, Johnny Brackett HCA, ...