Two NIOSH Scientists, Ziqing Zhuang, Ph.D., and William Newcomb, will participate in American Industrial Hygiene Association's Distance Learning Program by presenting "The Value of Anthropometrics" ...

About 22 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous noise levels at work, and hearing loss is the second-most-common occupational illness in America, according to NIOSH and the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

To establish an effective face panel, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-sponsored Anthrotech study performed a number of different analyses on the data it collected.

To ensure health and wellbeing of healthcare workers, prevention of infection is essential. Although N95 filtering facepiece respirators (N95 respirators) are potentially effective respiratory ...

Quantitative fit testing is the preferred testing method. The ambient aerosol condensation nuclei counting (CNC) method, using a Portacount® Plus instrument, has been selected as the quantitative fit ...

N95 respirators and air purifying respirators (the respirator type most commonly used at UNR) are not designed to be used in an atmosphere: 5.2.a. That is immediately dangerous to life or health (IDLH ...

Coronavirus and the resultant pandemic have changed how dentists work. Dental professionals require a fit test to wear a certain type of personal protective equipment (PPE) - the filtering facepiece ...

The innovative Advantage 420 Respirator from MSA allows users to quickly adjust the mask according to individual needs. Testing against the proposed new NIOSH fit-test panel confirms that the ...

In 2001 NIOSH contracted Anthrotech, Inc., to perform a comprehensive anthropometric study of respirator users in the United States workforce and to propose new fit-test face panels based on their ...