Respirator test procedure.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Myers WR
• Description:
  Equipment and test procedure used by the NIOSH Testing and Certification Branch to evaluate the effectiveness of respiratory protective devices against mists of silica (7631869) and other materials having a threshold limit value not less than 0.05 milligrams per cubic meter are described. Test requirements for such devices are set forth in the Federal Register, Part 11, Subpart 11.140-7 for maximum allowable penetration, and Subpart 11.140-9 for maximum allowable breathing resistances before and after testing. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Dust Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Protective Devices Safety Silicon Dioxide
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; Morgantown-Technical-Report; Respiratory-protective-equipment; Personal-protective-equipment; Dust-control; Silica-dusts; Respirable-dust; Exposure-limits; Measurement-instrumentation; Testing-equipment; Respirators; Procedures
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  ALOSH - Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-27
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00072602
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82196627
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH/TC/R-007, 1976 Jun; :1-27
• CAS Registry Number:
  Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/240685/cdc_240685_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]