Description of Protection Level of Dust Mask
In
addition to self-made masks and temporary masks, their types are mainly divided
into surgical masks (medical masks) and dust masks (industrial masks). There
are many kinds of materials. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) divides the material of this filter in the middle of the mask
into the following three types:
1.N
series: N stands for Not resistant to oil and can be used to protect non-oily
suspended particles. 2.R series: R stands for Resistant to
Oil
can be used to protect non-oily and oily suspended particles. 3.P series: P
stands for oil
Proof
can be used to protect non-oily and oily suspended particles. According to the
minimum filtration efficiency of the filter material, the mask can be divided
into the following three levels:
1.95
grade: indicates that the minimum filtration efficiency is 95%. 2.99 grade:
indicates that the minimum filtration efficiency is 99%.
3.100
grade: indicates that the minimum filtration efficiency is 99.97%.
Dust
masks are usually used to block dust or exhaust gas and cannot filter out
germs. To deal with all kinds of flu, we should choose to use surgical masks,
because there is a filter in the middle of this mask, which can block particles
of 5 microns (one millionth of a meter) or more.
Therefore,
N95 masks, R95, P95, and N99, R99, P99 with higher bacteria filtering function, and
even N100, R100, and P100 type masks can effectively filter suspended particles
or bacteria.
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