In my experience, respiratory protection is one of the more common forms of PPE used by employers in the United States. In many cases, employers may decide to use respiratory protection to reduce ...

One piece of OSHA rulemaking casting a big shadow this year, given the agency's modest regulatory agenda, is OSHA's proposal to amend the respiratory protection standard to include new assigned ...

The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, supports increasing the assigned protection factor (APF) for quarter-facepiece ...

According to the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), the secretariat for the standard, it has important bearing on the debate about regulatory steps recently announced by OSHA. OSHA ...

The respiratory protection standard includes a requirement for a medical clearance for required use of tight-fitting respirators and for some specific respirators even with voluntary use. In my ...