Respirator Use and Practices in Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing Establishments: Results of a National Survey of Private Sector Employers

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• Personal Author:
  Bang KM ; Doney B ; Greskevich, Mark F. ; Groce D ; Syamlal G
• Description:
  In 2001, the Survey of Respirator Use and Practices gathered information on respirator use from 40,002 private U.S. establishments including the types of respirators used by workers, assessment of medical fitness to wear respirators, types of respirator fit tests, and presence of substances that prompted respirator use. Of respirator-using Instruments Manufacturing establishments, 22% did not provide training regarding the need, use, limitations, and capabilities of respirators; 37% did not provide assessment for medical fitness to wear respirators or didn't know if such an assessment was conducted; and 68% had three or more indicators of a potentially inadequate respiratory protection program. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Protective Devices Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Silicon Dioxide Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Air-filters Air-purifying-respirators Air-quality-monitoring Author Keywords: Questionnaires Breathing Breathing-zone Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Protective-measures Questionnaires Respirators Respiratory-equipment Respiratory-protective-equipment Respiratory System Disorders Silica Dusts Statistical-analysis Surveillance Work-analysis Work-operations Work-practices Worker Health Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1073-9149
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  359-365
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035328
• Citation:
  Instrum Sci Technol 2009 May; 37(3):359-365
• Contact Point Address:
  Mark Greskevitch, CDC, NIOSH, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, 1095 Willowdale Rd,Mail Stop HG-900-2, Morgantown, WV 26505
• Email:
  bdoney@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Instrumentation Science & Technology
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6acce5e0aa31eb3e084d693890068741c389e6729922343ec4bf50db8c05703a8a6852f0a55b72054c264ff220c445f74319b24a07914ac99eb45adfa47808a4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187232/cdc_187232_DS1.pdf
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