1、BY THE ANSI/AIHA Z88.7 SubcommitteeA Publication by American Industrial Hygiene AssociationColor Codingof Air-Purifying Respirator Canisters, Cartridges, and FiltersANSI/AIHA Z88.72010Please note the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is now the Secretariat of the Z88 ASC and holds the copy
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11、ior written permission of the publisher.Printed in the United States of America.Stock No: SMEA10-435ISBN: 978-1-935082-16-3Copyright AIHA For personal use only. Do not distribute.ContentsPage Foreword .iiiCommittee and Subcommittee Members .iv1. Purpose .12. Scope.13. Application .14. Definitions 15
12、. Colors.16. References.2Annex A .?Copyright AIHA For personal use only. Do not distribute.Copyright AIHA For personal use only. Do not distribute.FOREWORD (This foreword is not part of the American National Standard/AIHA Z88.72010)Manufacturers, users and governmental regulatory agencies will find
13、this standard to be a valuabletool for accurate and rapid identification of selected industrial respiratory protective devices byexamination of their respective canisters, cartridges or filters. Readily recognizable colors are specified for canister, cartridge or filter container or labels. Color sp
14、ecification utilizing the Munsellsystem will result in uniform cartridge, canister, filter container and label colors among respiratormanufacturers. American National Standards Committee Z88.7 on Color-Coding of Air-PurifyingRespirator canisters, cartridges and filters, under whose jurisdiction this
15、 standard was developed,has the following scope:The requirements of this standard apply to the identification of air-purifying respirator canisters,cartridges and filters used to provide respiratory protection against gases, vapors and/or particles.These requirements apply to cartridges and canister
16、s used in industrial or healthcare facilities,office buildings, mines, ships, confined spaces, wildland fire-fighting or other similar locations.These requirements do not apply to canisters, cartridges or filters used on:a) aviation respiratorsb) military respiratorsThis standard was originally publ
17、ished as American National Standard K13.1-1973. Changes weremade in the 2001 revision of this standard to reflect currently available color specifications and toeliminate reference to labeling requirements.This latest revision incorporates some of the colors used internationally in an attempt to har
18、monizewith current and future European and International standards. It also specifies color for Chemical,Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) canisters, not yet developed at the time of the lastrevision. New technology and research continues to change this field and it is hoped that future ve
19、rsions ofthe standard will reflect this growth in knowledge. Suggestions for improvement are welcome. Theyshould be sent to:Program Manager, StandardsAIHA2700 Prosperity Ave., Suite 250Fairfax, VA 22031iiiANSI/AIHA Z88.72010Copyright AIHA For personal use only. Do not distribute.ivThis standard was
20、processed and approved for submittal to ANSI by the Accredited StandardsCommittee Z88 on Respiratory Protection. Consensus was reached through a process involvingthe entire Z88 Committee in a series of reviews and in the final vote of approval. Committeeapproval of the standard does not necessarily
21、imply that all committee members voted for itsapproval. At the time it approved this standard, the Z88 Committee had the following members:James S. Johnson, PhD, CIH, QEP, ChairStephen C. Graham, CIH, CSP, Vice ChairMili Mavely, Secretariat RepresentativeOrganization Represented Name of Representati
22、ve3M C. ColtonAmerican Industrial Hygiene Association M. SchmoldtAmerican Iron and Steel Institute P. HernandezAmerican Society of Safety Engineers R. HarleyAmerican Welding Society S. HedrickBullard J. KingBWXT, Y-12 M. HaskewChemRisk, Inc. J. SahmelConsolidated Edison of New York G. SlintakInterna
23、tional Association of Firefighters R. DuffyInternational Safety Equipment Association J. BirknerHealth Physics Society S. PerleNational Fire Protection Association B. TeeleNational Institute of Occupational Safety and Health R. Berry AnnNavy Environmental Health Center D. SpelceNuclear Regulatory Co
24、mmission R. PedersonPeach Bottom Atomic Power Station E. GeeSafety Equipment America G. BerndtssonScott Health and Safety M. LorkowskiUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center R. McKayUniversity of Pittsburgh J. SchwerhaU.S. Department of Energy D. MarsickU.S. Department of Labor J. SteelnackU.S. Depa
25、rtment of the Army S. Graham Wayne State University S. MingelaIndividual MembersC. BienD. BevisT. NelsonR. MetzlerB. ReinertSubcommittee Z88.7 for the Color Coding of Air-Purifying Respirator Canisters, Cartridges andFilters, which developed this standard, had the following members:Bill Newcomb, Sub
26、committee ChairLynn FeinerJennifer SahmelANSI/AIHA Z88.72010Copyright AIHA For personal use only. Do not distribute.1cartridges or filters are properly color-coded according to these requirementsbefore they are delivered into the streamof commerce.4. Definitions4.1 Air-purifying element: a filter, s
27、orbent,catalyst or combination thereof, whichremoves specific contaminants from theair passing through it.4.2 Air-purifying respirator: A respirator inwhich ambient air is passed through anair-purifying element(s) that remove(s)the contaminant(s). Air is passed throughthe air-purifying element(s) by
28、 means ofthe breathing action or by a blower.4.3 canister/cartridge: A container encap-sulating an air-purifying element.4.4 CMYK: A subtractive color model, oftenreferred to as process color or four colorprocess, used in color printing. CMYKrefers to the four inks used in most colorprinting: Cyan,
29、Magenta, Yellow, and Key(black).4.5 High efficiency filter: A filter withgreater than 99.97% efficiency, and suit-able for any aerosol.4.6 Filter: An air-purifying element whichremoves both solid and liquid aerosols. 4.7 Munsell Notation: A means for specify-ing the colors of objects.(1)5. Colors5.1
30、 Each respirator canister, cartridge, filtercontainer or canister or cartridge labelshall be a distinctive color as indicated inTable 1. 1. PurposeThe purpose of this standard is to estab-lish a system of marking air-purifying res-pirator canisters, cartridges and filtercontainers by means of colors
31、 in orderto:1. Facilitate rapid identification of thecanisters, cartridges, and filters byusers.2. Ensure color consistency amongrespirator manufacturers.2. ScopeThe requirements of this standard applyto the identification of air-purifying respi-rator canisters, cartridges and filtersused to provide
32、 respiratory protectionagainst gases, vapors or particles. Theserequirements apply to canisters, car-tridges, and any high efficiency filters,whether encapsulated or un-encapsulat-ed, used as components of air-purifyingrespirators. These requirements do notapply to and shall not be used to identifyc
33、anisters, cartridges or filters for:a) aviation respirators, b) military respirators,c) non-high efficiency filters, or d) un-encapsulated respirator filters(e.g. filtering facepieces) except forhigh efficiency filters. Users of this standard should be awarethat regulatory agencies might haverequire
34、ments that are different from thisstandard.3. ApplicationThe manufacturers of air-purifying respi-rator canisters, cartridges or filters whichfall within the scope of this standard shallverify that all of these canisters, American National Standard Color Coding of Air Purifying Respirator Canisters,
35、 Cartridgesand FiltersAMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD ANSI Z88.72010Copyright AIHA For personal use only. Do not distribute.25.2 Where protection is for more than onecontaminant class, except CBRN, eachof the applicable colors shall be used inreadily discernible stripes such that themarkings meet the req
36、uirement of clause5.6.5.3 Where respirator canisters, cartridges orfilter containers are colored to conform tothis standard, each color shall be visibleat a distance of one meter.5.4 All colors used shall conform to theMunsell Notation. 5.5 Where labels are used to conform to thisstandard, the canis
37、ter, cartridge or filtercontainer shall be black, gray, transpar-ent; or may be left in its natural metalliccolor. 5.6 Each color shall be readily visible from adistance of one meter when the respira-tor using the air-purifying element isworn. 5.7 Labels used for color-coding shall beresistance to c
38、hange such as, but notlimited to, peeling, fading, bleaching andblistering. In the event that the color-coded label is separated from the canis-ter, cartridge or filter, evidence shallremain to alert users that the color-codedlabel is missing.5.8 The color coating or colored materialused shall be re
39、sistant to change suchas, but not limited to, chipping, peeling,scaling, blistering, and fading, and to theeffects of ordinary atmospheres to whichthey may be exposed under normal orordinary conditions of storage and use.6. Reference1. American Society for Testing andMaterials (ASTM): D1535-08, Spec
40、ifyingColor by the Munsell System. WestConshohocken, PA: ASTM, 1996.ANSI/AIHA Z88.72010Table 1 Color Assigned to Air Purifying ElementsAtmospheric Contaminant Class or Contaminant to be Color Munsell CMYKProtected Against Assigned1Notation2Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Typical Contaminants3Acidic gases
41、White N 9.5/ 0000 Cl, ClO2, H2S, HCl, SO2, HFBasic gases Green 2.5G 5/10 75 20 44 24 NH, CH3NH2Organic vapors Brown 10YR 3/6 19 32 52 41 A majority of organic vapors Formaldehyde Tan 10YR 7/3 20 28 41 4 HCHOCarbon monoxide gas Blue 2.5PB 4/10 83 43 20 16 COMercury Vapors Orange 5YR 7/14 0 42 100 0 H
42、gOther vapors and gases not listed above Olive 7.5Y 5/6 19 24 54 27 NOx, HCN, CH3Br, (CH2)2O, AsH3All aerosols Purple 7.5P 4/8 21 39 19 28 Dusts, mists, fumes, droplets,(High Efficiency filter) bacteria, viruses, radionuclidesCBRN Black N 0.75/ 0 0 0 100 See Note 41. Multiple contaminant filtering e
43、lements, except for CBRN, shall have all the applicable colors. 2. Munsell Color Samples are available from GretagMacbeth Co., 617 Little Britain Road, New Windsor, NY 12553-6148.3. Not all cartridges or canisters are suitable for all contaminants within the contaminant class. See the text on the fi
44、lteringelement labels for specific contaminant designations for which the filtering element is suitable. 4. CBRN canisters are suitable for many of the contaminants within all of the classes listed.Copyright AIHA For personal use only. Do not distribute.END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT - READ CA
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