OSHA, Occupational Safety & Health Administration, is the top American organization for safety.
Here is what OSHA says about 3 types of masks and what they require employers to do.
• N95 and masks with exhale ports
• surgical masks
• filter or cloth masks
OSHA says some masks are okay and some are not okay in certain situations.
If you’re working with fumes and aerosol chemicals and you give your employees the wrong masks and they get sick you can be sued.
• N95 masks: are designed for CONTAMINATED environments.
That means when you exhale through N95 the design is that you are exhaling into contamination. The exhale from N95 masks are vented to breath straight out without filtration. They don’t filter the air on the way out. They don’t need to.
Conclusion:
if you’re in a store and someone with Covid has a N95 mask, their covid breath is unfiltered being exhaled into The store (because it was designed for already contaminated environments, it’s not filtering their air on the way out)
• Surgical Mask: these masks were designed and approved for STERILE environments.
The amount of particles and contaminants in the outside and indoor environments, where people are, CLOG these masks very quickly. The moisture from your breath combined with the clogged mask will render it “useless”
If you come in contact with Covid and your mask traps it, you become a walking virus dispenser.
Everytime you put your mask on you are breathing the germs from EVERYWHERE you went.
Surgical masks should be changed or thrown out every “20-30 minutes in a non sterile environment”
CLOTH masks offer NO FILTERING whatsoever.
As you exhale you are ridding your lungs of contaminants and carbon dioxide. Cloth masks trap this carbon dioxide the best. It actually risks health.
The moisture caught in these masks can become mildew ridden over night. Dry coughing, enhanced allergies, sore throat are all symptoms of a micro-mold in your mask.
In review:
N95 masks blow the virus into the air from a contaminated person.
Surgical masks are not designed for the outside world and will not filter the virus upon inhaling through it.
It’s filtration works on the exhale. (Like a vacuum bag it only works one way)
Cloth masks are WORSE than none.
The CDC wants us to keep wearing masks. But OSHA says The masks don’t work.
*Occupational Safety & Health Administration is the top American organization for safety.
They regulate and educate asbestos workers, surgical rooms, you name it.
If your mask gives you security wear it, just know it is a false sense of security.
If work requires you to wear a mask, OSHA requires that your employer verifies you are receiving the minimum of 19.5% oxygen level by law!
Are your oxygen levels being monitored while at work?
Are you experiencing dizziness and headaches?
This is a written law NOT a recommendation
If employees started citing the law and demanded their employers to follow the law, the masks would go away.
Lawyers will be making a fortune for years to come.
