Hospital respiratory protection program toolkit : resources for respirator program administrators

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; United States. Department of Labor ; United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• Description:
  Published in MAY 2015 (updated APRIL 2022)
  
  "Healthcare personnel are at increased risk for exposure to ATD pathogens and, when other controls have been considered and implemented as appropriate, may be required to use respiratory protection. In order for respirators to provide effective protection they must be properly selected, used, and maintained as part of a written program, which describes how employers will provide employees adequate medical evaluations, training, and fit testing. The program must be evaluated regularly through observation and obtaining input from all respirator users and persons involved in implementing the program. Public health guidance and regulations must be regularly reviewed for changes and utilized to identify tasks and pathogens requiring the use of respiratory protection." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  This document was originally adapted from a California-specific guide, Implementing Respiratory Protection ProgramsinHospitals:A Guide for RespiratorProgram Administrators, May 2012, which was developed by the California Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Branch, and the Public Health Institute under contract no. 254-2010-345-11 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NIOSH-NPPTL). The guide was adapted under contract no. 254-2011-M-40839 from NIOSH-NPPTL to produce this toolkit.
  
  Since the original publication of this document in 2015, in this republished 2022 version, minor errors were corrected, hyperlinking practices were improved to follow more modern standards, and broken or outdated hyperlinks were fixed.
  
  NIOSHTIC no.: 20064915
  
  Suggested citation: NIOSH [2015]. Hospital Respiratory Protection Program Toolkit: Resources for Respirator Program Administrators. Atlanta, GA: Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication Number 2015-117 (revised 04/2022)
  
  2015-117revised042022.pdf?id=10.26616/NIOSHPUB2015117
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2015117revised042022
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  96 numbered pages in various pagings
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064915
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:27702d87812016a3ccb801c1d44329cbc7660aa7c061d508d08480bac16ebdcaf87436f39863bf357fc8834ed6aa44b65aa33be84882b95a6a2657ce4dc30ba6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/116121/cdc_116121_DS1.pdf
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