Join Us in Moving Science to Solutions for Emergency Preparedness

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Challenge: Police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians face many hazards on the job, including chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. Effective personal protective equipment and strict safety standards are critical to ensure the health and safety of emergency responders. Approach: Stakeholders from government, manufacturing and emergency response fields joined NIOSH to establish new respirator standards for CBRN hazards. They established performance requirements and identified concerns with the existing equipment development process, such as policy, manufacturing and personnel issues. This input allowed researchers to develop practical standards to protect workers from CBRN threats. Impact: This group effort resulted in the first CBRN standards for respirators. The u.s. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) adopted the new standards for all equipment purchased by DHS grant funds. The National Fire Protection Association also endorsed these standards. Approximately 7% of all on-duty career firefighters had CBRN respirators available or on order by December 2004. Additionally, six major equipment manufacturers have received approvals, and sixteen retrofit kits have also been approved. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Biological Warfare Agents Chemical Warfare Agents Emergencies Emergency Responders Firefighters Law Enforcement Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Protective Devices Safety
• Keywords:
  Biological-warfare-agents Biological-weapons Chemical-warfare-agents Emergency-responders Emergency-response Fire-fighters Personal-protective-equipment Police-officers Radioactive-dusts Radioactive-particles Respirators Respiratory-protective-equipment

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2005157
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet or Booklet
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028400
• Citation:
  Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2005-157, 2005 Sep; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c76c0f53e11b2ae8a14e92bcaf4357ae894e039407582b86ecdb133132206831fcd03224e942dd708d4a659ad3a76386fa24cf335fc9fc3f2ea3d811b37e746f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209871/cdc_209871_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 520.93 KB ]