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Protect Your People

Conclusions

• Consequences of things going wrong can be CATASTROPHIC

• both for the health of workers and for the finances of the company

• “Just because there is no immediate harm does not mean no

harm is being done”

• Just ensuring a garment meets a CE standard does NOT make it safe

• CE Standards can form a USEFUL PART of a risk analysis

• but cannot REPLACE a risk analysis

• Chemical Suit selection is not a simple process

• Many factors as well as the chemical may be important

• Some important factors may not be addressed by specific

standards