2008–2009 SAFETY EQUIPMENT CATALOG volume 12 | number 1 90+ Years of Products, Service and Expertise MSA offers more than safety Helping first responders is part of our history MSA offers more than safety on the job Mine Safety Appliances Great Products Company was founded MSA began making high-quality safety products in in 1914 by two mining 1914. Technology enhances our innovation in engineers who designed product development, with computer-aided or improved safety, design and stereo lithography, a technology rescue and protective which produces prototypes rapidly. MSA responds gear. MSA has continued quickly as your needs change. Within most product to help protect people from groups is a wide selection of models, sizes, colors, hazards great and small, materials, options, accessories and prices. Many and today helps protect components of MSA products are formulated, machined, millions of workers in many tooled or molded in-house from raw materials, allowing for greater industries worldwide. manufacturing control as well as quality assurance. MSA processes are MSA has sold gas masks certified as meeting ISO 9001-2000 quality assurance requirements of the for military use since International Standard Organization (ISO). World War I. We have always understood the Great Plans for the Future demands placed on crucial MSA continues to enhance our operations and expand/ improve our protective equipment in product lines by acquiring companies and/or new capabilities to better extremely hazardous serve our customers. In 2002, MSA began manufacturing specialized conditions. MSA helmets for military and law-enforcement use, and in 2004 added passive historically and steadfastly has helped first responders before, during, and electronic hearing protection. In 2005, MSA created a new ballistic and after emergencies, from small house fires to multiple explosions at protection product line, offering ballistic vests to protect law enforcement chemical plants, from hazardous materials spills to hurricanes. personnel. Great People Your personalized MSA service starts with a trained MSA-authorized distributor near you and the largest team of field representatives in the safety industry. They understand your hazards and the regulations with which you must comply, and will help to analyze your safety requirements and recommend solutions. MSA-authorized distributors are knowledgeable, well-trained and proficient at providing the services you need and also can assist in training your in-house trainer. Training your employees properly in the use, care and maintenance of our products is easy with MSA-produced VHS or DVD presentations. See page 186 for a list of available programs. MSA’s website includes on-line product information offering the basics of most products in this printed catalog, plus links to .pdf versions of printed literature MSA makes and markets respiratory protection, gas-and-flame-detection and other materials that you instruments, head, eye, face, and hearing protection, fire and police can print yourself. Go to helmets, fall protection, thermal imaging cameras, ballistic protection, and www.MSAnet.com. To send mining, emergency, and specialty equipment via a national network of us an e-mail message, use trained distributors, product specialists and knowledgeable contacts. MSA [email protected]. Most has been a global company for decades, protecting millions of people MSA literature is also around the world. What have we done for YOU lately? available via FAX, fast! Just dial 1-800-672-9010 for our QuickLit SM Information Service. Follow recorded instructions and enter your literature request and your FAX machine number. Outside the U.S. dial (+1) 412-967-3446. 2 Customer Service Center: 1-800-MSA-2222 • Website: www.MSAnet.com • QuickLit Fax Information: 1-800-672-9010 Customer Satisfaction Award-Winning Customer Service Every customer wants it. Every good business has it. Our multiple-award-winning Customer Service Center (CSC) proves that MSA strives for continuous improvement in customer satisfaction. MSA is proud of the service provided to our North American customers via our Customer Service Center. Every year brings positive changes: better-trained representa- tives with more advanced computer programs, resulting in improved service and faster solutions. Each Customer Service Rep’s computer workstation can simultaneously handle a variety of applications, and an automated call distributor monitors and routes call flow to ensure peak performance. The CSC continues to look for ways to improve our relationship with customers via input from sales personnel and field customers themselves. We’re aiming for TOTAL customer satisfaction! Ask us the name of your nearest authorized MSA distributor, who can: • Place your orders • Obtain prices and quotes • Provide product information and technical assistance • Check delivery and expedite shipments • Order catalogs and product literature • Obtain return authorizations Great International Sales MSA’s international sales capabilities start with MSA Sales Representatives who assist in choosing the right products for your applications and local approvals. Our extensive network of distributors, representatives and MSA-affiliate companies covers most major cities worldwide. Highly-trained international customer service representatives guide your export orders from placement to delivery. MSA uses all major air and ocean freight forwarders and courier services due to their ability to consolidate multiple orders and minimize freight expenses. Our CSRs understand international inspections, certifications, licensing and other customs issues necessary for successful importation. To contact MSA International or to find the MSA affiliate company or distributor nearest you, please contact MSA International: Toll-free in the U.S.: 1-800-MSA-7777 Outside the U.S.: (+1) 412-967-3354 FAX: (+1) 412-967-3451 Email: [email protected] To reach our Customer Service Center: Toll-free: 1-800-MSA-2222 1-800-MSA-5555 (after-hours emergencies) FAX: 1-800-967-0398 MSA Voice Mail System: 1-800-759-6423 Mailing Address: Customer Service Center MSA World Headquarters P.O. Box 426 Pittsburgh, PA 15230-0426 Customer Service Center: 1-800-MSA-2222 • Website: www.MSAnet.com • QuickLit Fax Information: 1-800-672-9010 3 Respirators: APR & SAR Key Elements of a Sound Respiratory Protection Program The fundamental goal of any respiratory • Procedures for selecting respirators for use in protection program is to control occupational the workplace The 7 Key Elements diseases caused by breathing air contaminated • Fit-testing procedures for tightfitting respirators with harmful dusts, fogs, fumes, mists, gases, (including a signed copy of employees’ fit-test Chances are that you are already smokes, sprays, and/or vapors. The defense records) familiar with the need for and use against these contaminants is simple: Keep • Procedures for proper use of respirators in of respirators in your workplace, them out of the air that workers breathe. Always routine and emergency situations but as with anything else, it doesn’t implement engineering and/or administrative • Procedures and schedules for cleaning, hurt to review your current program controls first. If contaminants still present a disinfecting, storing, inspecting, and repairing against standard operating hazard, you must provide appropriate respiratory respirators procedures governing the selection protection for every employee who might be • Procedures to ensure adequate air quality, and use of respirators. According exposed to them. quantity, and flow of breathing air for atmospheresupplying respirators to program details in OSHA’s Respiratory Protection Standard MSA can help you take a comprehensive • Medical evaluations of employees required to approach to sound Respiratory Protection wear respirators (29 CFR 1910.134), the seven key practices. This guide will help you understand elements that every respiratory Employers must: the need for respirators, how they work, and protection program should what their limitations are. • Submit a written respiratory protection program unless the choice of voluntary contain are: respiratory protection is a filtering facepiece (dust mask) 1. A written plan detailing how the • Provide voluntary respirator users with program will be administered Appendix D (p. 1284) of the Standard • Ensure that employees using a respirator 2. A complete assessment and voluntarily have medical clearance knowledge of respiratory Employees must clean, store, and maintain hazards that will be encountered the respirator so that its use does not present in the workplace a health hazard. 3. Procedures and equipment Voluntary Respirator Use to control respiratory hazards, An employer must provide respiratory protection including the use of engineering for employees who ask for it or let employees use controls and work practices their own respiratory protection, if such respirator designed to limit or reduce OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health use will not create a hazard. Fit testing is not employee exposures to Administration) and NIOSH (the National Institute required for voluntary use. such hazards of Safety and Health) regulations define all the If possible, one person should administer these specific requirements which must be followed, procedures, to ensure consistent coordination and 4. Guidelines for the proper including the capabilities of appropriate direction and optimum results. The actual selection of appropriate respiratory protection.