Filter Selection Made Easy Free Online Filter Selection Tool

With hundreds of different filters available for respiratory equipment, choosing the right one for your environment can be tricky. If incorrect, the wrong filter can put your employees at severe risk. Scott Safety (USA), specialists in respiratory protection, have launched the SureLife Filter Calculator, an online tool that recommends the most suitable filter based on the user’s data.

Mark Andrews, Air Purifying Product Manager at Scott Safety, explained, “We’ve introduced the SureLife Filter Calculator as a way to help simplify filter selection and to ensure you’re getting the appropriate level of protection. The free online tool allows users to input their own data to select an appropriate filter for their specific environment. The calculator has a comprehensive database of respiratory hazard data to make an appropriate filter selection for specific hazard environment and recommends compatible equipment to ensure the user has all information required for adequate protection. Importantly, the tool also indicates where filter-based respiratory products are not suitable, for example where breathing apparatus is required in oxygen-deficient atmospheres.

The product selector guides the user through the suitability of work environments, the types of dusts, fumes or mists present and the contaminants likely to be encountered. The calculator then allows the user to select input exposure limits before it identifies what type of filter should be used. The software is inherently sophisticated to use additive toxicity rules so filter recommendations can even be made for hazard mixtures, which can often be experienced in real-life situations.

The SureLife Filter Calculator is an ideal way of getting a quick, simple but accurate filter recommendation for air purifying respirators and should be used as part of an existing respiratory program.