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2 A Program in Transformation
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... changing the way in which work is organized and production is facilitated, and in the process, technological improvements Similarly, section 1910.134 requires: in personal protective equipment are improving the capacity In the control of those occupational diseases caused by to ward off the dangers of that changing workplace. Finally, breathing air contaminated with harmful dusts, fogs, the very regulatory environment that provides the basis fumes, mists, gases, smokes, sprays, or vapors, the for the NIOSH programs is changing in order to maintain primary objective shall be to prevent atmospheric conrelevance.
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From page 10...
... , which encompasses PPE such as As a federal agency, NIOSH is increasingly challenged respirators, chemical-resistant clothing, hearing protectors, to develop measures of performance -- to set and meet hard hats, hazardous substance sensors, and safety goggles goals and objectives established under the Government and glasses that provide a barrier between the employee and Performance and Results Act and to complete the periodic the occupational safety and health risk. scorecard in the Performance Assessment Rating Tool.
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... provides national and international leadership toward the identification, evalu ChANGES IN ThE REGuLATORy ENvIRONMENT ation, and prevention of occupational respiratory diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Required practices associated with the use of respirators and pneumoconiosis. This division conducts a program of are defined, at the federal level, by regulation -- Occupasurveillance, under which it collects, analyzes, and dissemi- tional Health and Safety Administration Standard 29 CFR nates health and hazard information related to occupational 1910.134.
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... respiratory protection approved by NIOSH be available to all affected employees when an area in a coal mine has DATA FOR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT been determined to be in noncompliance with the applicable respirable dust standard. Respiratory protection is required The Survey of Respirator Use and Practices (SRUP)
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... The contaminant concentration wearing employees can be determined by air sampling, either on the site or in a • Written procedures and a schedule for maintaining similar operation, but in many cases other techniques such as respirators control banding12 can be used to anticipate the magnitude of • Assessment of hazards in the workplace • Training of employees on the hazards of substances in the workplace 10Surgical masks and surgical N95 respirators are regulated by the FDA. FDA evaluates the performance of these devices in areas including fluid SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics and National Institute for resistance and filtration efficiency to ensure that they are at least as safe Occupational Safety and Health.
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... -- was conducted in mines regulated by the Mine Safety and • Durability or expected use lifetime Health Act.14 • Common failures or reliability • Total inward leakage 14Boiano, James M., and R Delon Hull, Development of a National 13Bureau of Labor Statistics and National Institute for Occupational Occupational Exposure Survey and database associated with NIOSH hazard Safety and Health, Respirator Usage in Private Sector Firms, 2001; Wash- surveillance initiatives, Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene ington, D.C., 2003, Table 1, p.
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... 96-136, National Institute for 20Frazier, Todd, NIOSH Occupational Health and Hazard Surveillance Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH, 1996.
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... OSHA conducted a Personal Protective Equipment Cost The OSHA survey estimated that 13 percent of all Survey in 1998.29 This survey was conducted to support the establishments (or an estimated 5.2 million employees) rulemaking process leading to the development of a new used respirators and that 8.3 percent of all employees wore Respiratory Protection Standard.30 The goal of the survey respirators (28.7 percent of construction employees)
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