Hi Folks, Would anyone happen to have a contact in the merseyside area of a company that carries out Face Fit Training, so that i can carry out the testing in-house. Cheers Lee

quote=Leerob]Hi Folks, Would anyone happen to have a contact in the merseyside area of a company that carries out Face Fit Training, so that I can carry out the testing in-house. Cheers Lee

Hi Bognor Whilst there is no argument that is written in HSG53, I believe that you will find that there are certainly major disagreement over the content and more importantly the implications for people who wear RPE in anger - eg Fire and Rescue, Asbestos, Sewer Workers. There is also perhaps a danger of gold plating - fit2fit is a voluntary scheme which has been set up by manufacturers and the face fit industry. Lets not forget who persuaded HSE's arm over asbestos face fits when there was a perfectly sound policy in place which just happened to commercially disadvantage an fledging industry who had created a client base in the asbestos sector? Using a hood and quantitative testing is not particularly difficult - I also accept it may not be as good as a portacount - but it most certainly does pick out some failures - interestingly these people do normally fit another type of mask under the same test. Cheers Bruce