Multi Threat Respiratory Protection for Civilian Crisis Scenarios
Dev saraf, Ruchi Gaur
People living in areas where conflicts are taking place and in the surroundings of industrial or nuclear disasters are now being exposed to a variety of complex atmospheric dangers. Such dangers consist of chemical warfare agents (CWAs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), ionizing radioactive dust, and ultrafine particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM0.1). Protective equipment of the military type for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) hazards is still too costly, bulky, and generally out of reach for disadvantaged civilian groups, and ordinary filtering facepiece respirators do not offer adequate protection against gases and radiation. This study presents the SafeBreath Guardian Kit, a respiratory protection system that is inexpensive and modular and has been specially designed for use by non-combatant populations.