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['Personal Protective Equipment']
['Respiratory Protection']
10/07/2026
| Activity | Service time— | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 minutes | 5 minutes | 10 minutes | 15 minutes | 30 minutes | 45 minutes | 1 hour | 2, 3, and 4 hours | |
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Perform 1 hour test 2, 3, or 4 times respectively. | |||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 18 | |
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 3 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 18 | |||
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 6 | 13 | 16 | |||||
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Activity | Service time— | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 minutes | 5 minutes | 10 minutes | 15 minutes | 30 minutes | 45 minutes | 1 hour | 2, 3 and 4 hours 1 | |
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10. | ||
| Carries 23 kg. (50 pound) weight over overcast | 1 time in 2 minutes | 1 time in 2 minutes | 2 times in 4 minutes | 3 times in 6 minutes | 4 times in 8 minutes | 5 times in 10 minutes. | ||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5. | |||
| Climbs vertical treadmill 2 (or equivalent) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1. |
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||
| Climbs vertical treadmill (or equivalent) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1. | ||||
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2. | ||||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11. | |||
| Climbs vertical treadmill (or equivalent) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1. | |||
| Carries 23 kg. (50 pound) weight over overcast | 1 time in 2 minutes | 3 times in 6 minutes | 4 times in 8 minutes | 5 times in 10 minutes | 5 times in 10 minutes. | |||
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2. | ||||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Climbs vertical treadmill (or equivalent) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Then repeat above activities once. | ||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| Climbs vertical treadmill (or equivalent) | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Carries 20 kg. (45 pound) weight and walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 1 Total test time for Test 2 for 2-hour, 3-hour, and 4-hour apparatus is 2 hours. 2 Treadmill shall be inclined 15° from vertical and operated at a speed of 1 foot per second. | ||||||||
| Activity | Service time— | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 minutes | 5 minutes | 10 minutes | 15 minutes | 30 minutes | 45 minutes | 1 hour | 2, 3 and 4 hours 1 | |
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | (2) | |||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Runs at 9.7 km. (6 miles) per hour | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Pulls 20 kg. (45 pound) weight to 5 feet | 15 times in 1 minute | 30 times in 2 minutes | 30 times in 2 minutes | 30 times in 2 minutes | 60 times in 6 minutes | |||
| Lies on side | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Lies on back | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |
| Crawls on hands and knees | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Runs at 9.7 km. (6 miles) per hour | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 2 | 8 | 10 | |||||
| Pulls 20 kg. (45 pound) weight to 5 feet | 30 times in 2 minutes | 60 times in 6 minutes | 60 times in 6 minutes | 60 times in 6 minutes | ||||
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | ||||
| Lies on side | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Lies on back | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 1 Total test time for Test 3 for 2-hour, 3-hour, and 4-hour apparatus is 2 hours. 2 Perform test No. 3 for 1 hr. apparatus; then perform test No. 1 for 1 hour apparatus. | ||||||||
| Activity | Service time— | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 minutes | 5 minutes | 10 minutes | 15 minutes | 30 minutes | 45 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours | 3 hours | 4 hours | |
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | (2) | (3) | (4) | |||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Climbs vertical treadmill 1 (or equivalent) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Pulls 20 kg. (45 pound) weight to 5 feet | 30 times in 2 minutes | 30 times in 2 minutes | 30 times in 2 minutes | 60 times in 5 minutes | 60 times in 5 minutes | 60 times in 5 minutes | ||||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| Carries 23 kg. (50 pound) weight over overcast | 1 time in 1 minute | 1 time in 1 minute | 2 times in 3 minutes | 4 times in 8 minutes | ||||||
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||||||
| Runs at 9.7 km. (6 miles) per hour | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Carries 23 kg. (50 pound) weight over overcast | 1 time in 1 minute | 1 time in 1 minute | 2 times in 3 minutes | 4 times in 6 minutes | 6 times in 9 minutes | |||||
| Pulls 20 kg (45 pound) weight to 5 feet | 15 times in 1 minute | 15 times in 1 minute | 60 times in 5 minutes | 30 times in 2 minutes | 36 times in 3 minutes | |||||
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||
| Pulls 20 kg. (45 pound) weight to 5 feet | 60 times in 5 minutes | 60 times in 5 minutes | ||||||||
| Carries 20 kg. (45 pound) weight and walks at 4.8 km. (3 miles) per hour | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| Sampling and readings | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 Treadmill shall be inclined 15° from vertical and operated at a speed of 30 cm. (1 foot) per second. 2 Perform test No. 1 for 30-minute apparatus; then perform test No. 4 for 1-hour apparatus; then perform test No. 1 for 30-minute apparatus. 3 Perform test No. 1 for 1-hour apparatus; then perform test No. 4 for 1-hour apparatus; then perform test No. 1 for 1-hour apparatus. 4 Perform test No. 1 for 1-hour apparatus; then perform test No. 4 for 1-hour apparatus; then perform test No. 1 for 1-hour apparatus twice (i.e., two one-hour tests). | ||||||||||
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