Acceptable breathing resistance for respirator use.

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• Personal Author:
  Love RG
• Description:
  Research which has been conducted on acceptable degrees of resistance to breathing in respiratory protective devices is reviewed. Four categories of acceptability are defined and factors contributing to the determination of the boundaries between these categories are discussed. Studies which have investigated degrees of resistance which are physiologically first detectable, subjectively first noticeable, noticeable but tolerable, and just barely tolerable are reviewed. The relationship between the evidence available in the literature on acceptable levels of breathing resistance and various current national standards is examined. The author concludes that allowable breathing resistance should not be any greater than that which is noticeable but well tolerated during the hardest work likely to be performed by wearers of the device. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Ergonomics Lung Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Protective Devices Respiratory System Safety
• Keywords:
  Respiratory-protective-equipment; Ergonomics; Personal-protective-equipment; Safety-engineering; Pulmonary-function
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  181-202
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00123907
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1980 Sep; :181-202
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Papers from the NIOSH International Respirator Research Workshop, September 9-11, 1980, Division of Safety Research, NIOSH, Morgantown, WV
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/241510/cdc_241510_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]