It is vital for the safety-conscious employer to ensure the correct fit of all tight fitting respirators including full face masks, half masks and disposable respirators.

This is especially critical with the advent of the new COSHH revision of Respirators and Breathing Apparatus.This makes using the latest equipment, developed with 21st century technology, absolutley essential.  Otherwise, you run the risk of simply going through the monitors of qualitative respirator fit testing and wasting precious time generating questionable test results.

FitTester 3000 - The Scientifically Proven Alternative

The scientifically-proven, HSE and OSHA-accepted Fit Tester 3000 will add real value to your respitatory protection programme.  With the Fit Tester 3000, you need no longer worry about whether your respirator fit testing environment contains ambient particles which match the aerodynamic properties of the containment you're really concerned about.  You need no longer be concerned about the inherent measurement biases of particle counting such as leak penetration losses, lung deposition, and particle streamlining.

The FitTester 3000 utilises the patented Controlled Negative Pressure (CNP) technology which has been scientifically proven to be a much more reliable means of measuring respirator faceseal leakage and to provide a much more rigorous test of respirator fit than non-validated particle counting techniques.The use of ambient air as a standard (non-varying) gaseous challenge agent provides a more rigorous test of mask fit than does an aerosol agent.

The FitTester 3000 directly measures facepiece leakage instead of estimating leakage by trying to count fractions of a particle/cc in a mask environment that is strongly effected by in-mask sampling biases. In fact, the Fit Tester 3000 measured known respirator leaks with less than 5% error, whilst aerosol-based measurements of those same leaks had errors up to 80%.

What's more, the FitTester 3000 is extreamly easy to set up, use and maintain.  There is no instrument warm-up period ro worry about, and the on-screen prompting of the instrument guides the user effortlessly through the QNFT test protocol.  If you have a poor mask fit, you know in a matter of seconds.  In the UK, the FitTester 3000 is exclusively available for purchase from ESS Safeforce.  Call 0800 000 346 for more details.

Face Fit Testing Service From ESS Safeforce

Alternatively, if you prefer, the ESS Safeforce team of Respiratory Support Experts is readily available to quantitively test the facial fit of your Respiratory Protective Equipment.  Our team of fully trained experts will visit your site and use the FitTester 3000 to measure the degree of leakage which occurs around the face seals of respirators during normal usage.

The immediate, unambiguous results will identify pooor wearing procedures and the use of inappropriate, ill-fitting equipment.  Therefore, the whole process will significatly speed up the reliable selection of the best fitting respiratory equipment for each of your employees.