Provide appropriate and advanced personal protective equipment

Responders would like protective garments that are appropriate for their calls for service. Ideally, the duty uniform should help protect responders against the most likely threats encountered, including fire, blood-borne pathogens, extreme weather and projectiles. Responders are not looking for individual suits or pieces for each threat. Mission-specific garments should provide varying levels of protection as needed,but with enhanced comfort and wearability. All garments should accommodate differences in gender and body size. When possible, components and garments should be integrated with other tools or equipment (e.g., sensors) to limit the weight strain of the PPE. Some military and commercial systems use a modular concept that allows the user to customize their level of protection to meet the specific incident or threat. Application of the modular concept has been suggested as a potential

A solution is a means that contributes to a crisis management function. A solution is either one or more processes or one or more tools with related procedures.

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Sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or event requiring immediate action.
Note 1 to entry: An emergency is usually a disruption or condition that can often be anticipated or prepared for, but seldom exactly foreseen.

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responders.