Patent Document ID: 9411994
Application ID: 13250330
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of managing the safety of a plurality of personal protection equipment items, the method comprising the steps of: assigning a unique identifier with a size of at least 128 bits to each item of a plurality of personal protection equipment items; for each item of the plurality of personal protection equipment items, encoding the unique identifier assigned to the item into an ultra high frequency RFD chip and attaching the chip to the item either before or after said encoding; storing the assigned unique identifiers in a database that associates each identifier with the item corresponding to the unique identifier; wirelessly receiving the unique identifier from each of a plurality of the chips after the chips are attached to their corresponding item; automatically accessing the database to determine which items correspond to each of the unique identifiers received in the wirelessly receiving step; electronically transmitting to a user information specific to the items determined in the automatically accessing step; wherein the step of electronically transmitting information comprises automatically transmitting the information to the user in response to schedules associated with each of the items determined in the automatically accessing step; and wherein the schedules are safety inspection schedules specific to each of the items determined in the automatically accessing step.