Useful information
Articles and stories about many aspects of breathing and respiratory protection.
General useful information
Ruling to AS/NZS 1715:2009
Ruling from Standard Australia on facial hair and wearing PAPRs and fit testing
Sundström
Escape Hood
What is required of a personal emergency escape hood?
Have you done your costings?
Long-term cost comparison between disposable masks and elastomer respirators
Virus Outbreak
About viruses such as SARS, MERS, birdflu, swine flu and novel coronavirus and means to achieve effective breathing protection
Masks versus Respirators?
Article by Dr John Wallaart
SE-shield/SE4x
SE400 & Sydney Olympics
How SE400 was chosen for the Sydney Olympics by Defence, Police, Health and Fire emergency services
Wet Decon
Wet decontamination of SE-shield
A long hard climb
An experiment into human breathing at high work rates.
Will your respirator let you breathe?
NSW Fire Brigade climbs 25-storey high-rise wearing SE400 respirators
S.E.A.
Testing Speech
How we test speech diaphragms and in-respirator speech amplifiers