NIOSH to Hold Public Meeting on Respirator Issues

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC), has announced that it will conduct a public meeting to discuss current respirator standards development projects for Supplied Air Respirators (SAR); Air Fed Ensembles; and Total Inward Leakage (TIL) for respirators other than filtering facepieces and halfmasks. There will be an opportunity for discussion following NIOSH's presentations and an accompanying poster session. The meeting will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., September 17, 2009, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. To get additional information, please see the Federal Register notice attached below.