8. Resume and suggestions

On purpose to define unified ideology of design and development of self-rescuers for providing chemical and biological safety of population it is necessary to:

1. Put self-rescuers for population into the separate class of personal safety equipment with independent legal and technical base.

2. Establish and define the contents and structure of system of self-rescuers for population.

3. Develop the general requirements to the system and standards for its separate elements including testing methods.

4. Develop unified standards and order of use for various types of self-rescuers for population.

Literature.

1. Standards of fire safety - NPB 302-2001 Fire engineering. Filtering self-rescuers for protection of respiratory apparatus of people at evacuation from facilities during fire. General technical requirements. Testing methods.

2. GOST Р 22.9.09-2005 Safety in extreme situations. Personal safety equipment for population in extreme situations. Filtering self-rescuers. General technical requirements.

3. GOST 22.3.03-97/GOST Р 22.3.03-94 Safety in extreme situations. Protection of population. General provisions.

4. Basics of the federal policy in the area of maintenance of chemical and biological safety of the Russian Federation for the period till 2010 and the further prospect. Pr-2194, 2003.

5. European standard EN 403: 1993 Filtering respiratory protection device.

Published in the LABOUR SAFETY magazine, № 10, 2005