Standard Guide for Conformity Assessment of Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment

Importancia y uso:

5.1 Writers of PPE specifications produce requirements to mitigate defined personal safety and health hazards.

5.2 The users and wearers of PPE expect that these products will perform in conformance with stated specifications to help mitigate personal hazard(s).

5.3 Conformity assessment requirements are a means to provide confidence that PPE conform to specifications.

5.3.1 Conformity assessment requirements should be defined to address the confidence needed to ensure the PPE will provide protection for the identified hazard. (See Annex A1 for a discussion on how standards should address hazards and risks through performance and other requirements that provide adequate protection.)

5.3.2 Conformity assessment requirements are a means to manage the risks of nonconforming PPE and can serve as a balance of cost effectiveness and risk of injury or illness of a nonconforming product.

5.4 Conformity assessment can include sampling and testing, inspection, supplier’s declaration, certification, surveillance, and quality and environmental system assessment and registration. It can also include accreditation that indicates competence by the provider from a third party.

5.4.1 The requirements’ rigor and scheme participant independence of the conformity assessment activities can vary from a supplier declaration of conformity (SDOC), to third-party independent testing, certification, and other conformity assessment requirements.

5.5 This guide identifies options for conformity assessment consistent with the U.S. HHS NIOSH National Framework for Personal Protective Equipment Conformity Assessment – Infrastructure as a means to manage the defined hazards and risk to wearers of a nonconforming PPE.

5.6 This guide further identifies hazards and risks for which a conformity assessment scheme can be developed.

Subcomité:

F23.50

Referida por:

E3108-18R24, F3352_F3352M-23B, F2407_F2407M-23A, E2952-24, F2100-23, F2704-17A, F3502-24

Volúmen:

11.03

Número ICS:

13.340.10 (Protective clothing)

Palabras clave:

certification; conformity assessment; hazard; personal protective clothing and equipment; PPE; quality assurance; risk; supplier declaration; third-party testing;