Training in Respirator Fit Testing

Beginners read on. If you are familiar with RPP, QNFT or QLFT click here.

Yes, of course all respirators work, but even if the mask is perfect, it still doesn’t mean that your face is the right size! Respirators are designed to reduce, not remove industrial pollutants that could cause you harm if breathed in. How well they reduce that risk depends more than anything else on how well it fits you, or your workers.

The UK's Health and Safety Executive have issued guidance on how they expect safety managers to measure the effectiveness of the Respiratory Protection Programmes they set up to.

Satisfying the requirements of the FIT2FIT Accreditation scheme (launched this year by British Safety Industry Federation at the behest of the UK Health and Safety Executive) demonstrates that you have probably complied with the requirements of the HSE’s Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPs) relating to airborne industrial hazards and respiratory protection. If you are not certified against the FIT2FIT scheme, then you are going to be challenged by HSE inspectors to demonstrate your competence in some other way of your own devising. It simply isn’t going to happen, certainly not in any way you or your business can afford!

So, you need to be accredited as a competent person, but before you do that, you need to get some training. That's where I come in. I have been Fit Testing for nearly 20 years, and before that I was responsible for the management of an extensive respiratory protection programme in one of ICI's corporate laboratory facilities. I can make sure you become accredited, meet your obligations to your staff and to the HSE, with a minimum of fuss and the maximum benefit to you and your organisation.

Products

• Half Day Introduction to Fit Testing (FT1)
• Qualitative Fit Testing (QLFT1)
• Quantitative Fit Testing (QNFT1)
• Annual Support Packages

It may not always be possible to
successfully Fit Test everyone!

Here you can access various "stock" products. Don’t get too bogged down in any apparent limitations or details, these are only here to serve as a starting point - we can always design content to meet your specific needs, but in such a regulated subject it is best to ensure we cover both the bases that you need to cover, but also those that the HSE require you to cover as well!