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Safety is in the hood
April 1st 2008

Scott Health & Safety has launched a Bitrex Qualitative Fit Test Kit. Fit testing can be either qualitative or quantitative. Scott offers quantitative fit test adaptors for all its Respirators, and the addition of the new Qualitative Kit provides an alternative test method ideally suited to half mask respirators.

The test procedure is straightforward. Users wear their respirator inside a hood and a Bitrex aerosol is sprayed in. The user carries out some exercises to simulate work movements and if they cannot detect the bitter taste of the aerosol the test is satisfactory.

A major cause of users achieving less protection than they should do from their RPE is poor fit. The new Scott kit uses the harmless bitter taste of Bitrex to ensure that a good fit, using the correct size, is achieved at the outset. In the UK it is a legal requirement that anyone using half or full mask respirators, known as must have a face fit test.

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