Projectile Fluid Penetration and Flammability of Respirators and Other Head/Facial Personal Protective Equipment (FPFPPE) (Dataset)

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Introduction: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires surgical masks (SMs) and surgical N95 respirators used in healthcare to meet certain fluid resistance and flammability levels. NIOSH's National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) investigated the fluid penetration and flammability of respirators and other head/facial personal protective equipment to determine their efficacy in reducing healthcare workers' risk for occupational exposures to infectious microorganisms and injury due to accidental fires in surgical settings. The results from this study showed that FDA cleared SMs and surgical N95 respirators were resistant to synthetic blood penetration (Rengasamy et al. 2014) and met the flammability levels (Rengasamy et al. 2018) as expected. Seven out of eleven non-FDA cleared NIOSH-approved N95 filtering facepiece respirator models also passed the synthetic blood penetration and flammability tests. NPPTL tested five models of powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) hoods and all models showed resistance to synthetic blood penetration and flammability levels. This may be important to ensure protection to healthcare workers since the use of PAPRs in healthcare is likely to increase because of their higher protection levels. None of the surgical head cover models tested in the study showed resistance to synthetic blood penetration, but they did meet flammability levels. Further tests on the rigidity of six surgical N95 respirators showed that flat fold models might collapse at high breathing flow rates, and high temperature and relative humidity conditions (Rengasamy and Niezgoda, 2019). Healthcare workers may need to be aware of this as penetration of infected bodily fluids may spread diseases. Download Data: The primary data pertaining to projectile fluid penetration and flammability of respirators and other head/facial personal protective equipment (FPFPPE) research are available in CSV format. The data are presented in eleven tables. The data dictionary is available in PDF format. Data Collection Methods: Blood penetration resistance: Resistance to a synthetic blood penetration of respiratory devices was evaluated using the ASTM F1862 method (ASTM, 2000). Fluid penetration was measured at 450 cm/sec and/or at 635 cm/sec velocities. Flammability: The flammability level of N95 FFRs and other PPE was evaluated following the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) CS-191-53 flammability (Federal Register 2008) method. The burn time for five samples of each N95 FFR model was measured, and the average burn time was calculated. The average burn times of >3, 3.5 to 7.0, and <3.0 seconds represent flammability class 1, class 2 and class 3, respectively. Detailed descriptions of the methods are provided here: Methods.pdf. Acknowledgements: When a publication makes use of this dataset, acknowledgement of the development of the dataset should be attributed to NIOSH NPPTL. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Men Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Protective Devices Safety Women
• Keywords:
  Half Facepiece Respirators Humans Nanomaterials Nanoparticles Respirator Certification Respirators Respirator Selection Respirator Testing Respiratory Rate
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHRD-1010-2019-1
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Dataset
• Genre:
  Research Dataset
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  NPPTL - National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056647
• Citation:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Research Dataset RD-1010-2019-1, 2019 Jun; :dataset
• Contact Point Address:
  Chris Coffey, NIOSH, National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory, Research Branch, 626 Cochrans Mill Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15236-0070. Telephone: (412) 386-6111
• Email:
  ccc3@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Projectile fluid penetration and flammability of respirators and other head/facial personal protective equipment (FPFPPE)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1d70c97dd4e2ef1ec49ef791cd9da5008b31e91cedadf6d861b5f1136894ad6fea859c4b4776960f737cac908301d0f3e98da86bc3b488b08aced58ab131ded6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/214209/cdc_214209_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 61.33 KB ]