Personal Protective Equipment

A recent report from Textiles Intelligence in the United Kingdom indicates that smart textiles and nanotechnology will enhance the benefits of personal protective equipment (PPE) used to protect workers from occupational exposures, hazardous materials, and pathogens that trigger infectious diseases.

Ansell Healthcare Offers Moisturizing Surgical Glove

July 30th 2010

Researchers Discover Ease of Acinetobacter Transmission Via PPE, Unwashed Hands

July 27th 2010

Items of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as gowns and gloves, as well as the unwashed hands of healthcare workers, are frequently contaminated with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, which they say is more easily transmitted than previously thought.

Personal Protective Equipment

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