Decontamination and reuse of personal protective masks and respirators in healthcare: Human-centered investigation and implementation considerations

Sarah M Simmons¹, Ken Page², Jan M Davies^{1

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¹ W21C Research and Innovation Centre, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
² Workplace Health and Safety Business Partnerships, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁴ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁶ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁷ Infection Prevention and Control, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁸ Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

PMID: 35620552
PMCID: PMC8565094
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfh.2021.100003

Decontamination and reuse of personal protective masks and respirators in healthcare: Human-centered investigation and implementation considerations

Sarah M Simmons et al. Hum Factors Health. 2021 Dec.

. 2021 Dec:1:100003.

doi: 10.1016/j.hfh.2021.100003. Epub 2021 Nov 3.

Authors

Sarah M Simmons¹, Ken Page², Jan M Davies^{1

3

4}, Rebecca J Malott¹, John M Conly^{1

5

6

7

8}

Affiliations

¹ W21C Research and Innovation Centre, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
² Workplace Health and Safety Business Partnerships, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁴ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁶ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁷ Infection Prevention and Control, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
⁸ Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

PMID: 35620552
PMCID: PMC8565094
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfh.2021.100003

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: JMC is a co-principal investigator for a study funded from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research on acute and primary care preparedness for COVID 19 in Alberta, Canada and was the primary local investigator for a Staphylococcus aureus vaccine study funded by Pfizer for which all funding was provided only to the University of Calgary. He is a co-investigator on a WHO funded study using integrated human factors and ethnography approaches to identify and scale innovative IPC guidance implementation supports in primary care with a focus on low resource settings and using drone aerial systems to deliver medical supplies and PPE to remote First Nations communities during the COVID 19 pandemic. He also received support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to attend an Infection Control Think Tank Meeting. He is a member and Chair of the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Research and Development Expert Group for COVID 19 and a member of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) Ad hoc COVID 19 IPC Guidance Development Group, both of which provide multidisciplinary advice to the WHO, for which no funding is received and from which no funding recommendations are made for any WHO contracts or grants. He is also a member of the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group. JMD is a co-investigator for a study funded from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research on acute and primary care preparedness for COVID 19 in Alberta, Canada. Declarations of interest for all other authors: none.

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**Fig. 1**
Examples of masks included in the study. Top row, from left: Halyard Duckbill FFR; 3M 1870+ FFR; 3M 1860 FFR. Bottom row, from left: Halyard surgical/procedural mask; Colorado cloth “community” mask; WHO surgical/procedural mask.

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