page_title: Powered air-purifying respirator
hierarchical_section_title: Powered air-purifying respirator
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Фильтрующий СИЗОД с подачей воздуха для ЧС English: CBRN Powered Air-Purifying Respirator
context_page_description: A powered air-purifying respirator is a type of respirator used to safeguard workers against contaminated air. PAPRs consist of a headgear-and-fan assembly that takes ambient air contaminated with one or more type of pollutant or pathogen, actively removes a sufficient proportion of these hazards, and then delivers the clean air to the user's face or mouth and nose. They have a higher assigned protection factor than filtering facepiece respirators such as N95 masks. PAPRs are sometimes called positive-pressure masks, blower units, or just blowers.
context_section_description: A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) is a type of respirator used to safeguard workers against contaminated air. PAPRs consist of a headgear-and-fan assembly that takes ambient air contaminated with one or more type of pollutant or pathogen, actively removes (filters) a sufficient proportion of these hazards, and then delivers the clean air to the user's face or mouth and nose.  They have a higher assigned protection factor than filtering facepiece respirators such as N95 masks.  PAPRs are sometimes called positive-pressure masks, blower units, or just blowers.
caption: A powered air-purifying respirator with a belt-pack filter-blower that feeds air to the elastomeric mask.
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