The expense of quantitative fit testing instrumentation seems high compared to the cost of qualitative fit testing supplies. How can I justify this expense to my managers?
If you take the time to calculate how much money is spent per year doing qualitative fit testing, including the time employees spend being fit tested, the test operator’s time, facilities expenses, benefits and overhead, you will discover that the cost of the QNFT instrumentation is not so significant compared to the enormous improvement in your respiratory protection program. And the instrumentation expense is only one time, not each year. The benefit to your respiratory protection program is that you will be certain that employees have been trained properly. You will be certain that they know how to properly wear a respirator and you will be certain that they have been issued a mask that is the right size. If your company finds itself involved in some litigation, you will have a much stronger case if you can show the results of a quantitative fit test measured by an unbiased instrument, rather than the questionable result of a qualitative test.
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