[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 126 (Friday, June 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 34285]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16259]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Announces the
Following Meeting
Name: AIHA-NIOSH National Technical Workshop on Non-Powered Air-
Purifying Particulate Respirators Certified Under 42 CFR part 84.
Times and Dates: 2 p.m.-5 p.m., July 10, 1995; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.,
July 11, 1995; 9 a.m.-12 noon, July 12, 1995.
Place: American Industrial Hygiene Association, Suite 250, 2700
Prosperity Avenue, Fairfax, Virginia, 22031, telephone 703/849-8888.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates 50 people.
Purpose: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) and the American Industrial Hygiene Association
(AIHA) are jointly sponsoring a workshop to receive technical
comment and recommendations on a draft NIOSH user's guideline on
non-powered particulate filter respirators that will be certified
under new testing and certification procedures contained in 42 CFR
part 84.
Matters To Be Discussed: New testing and certification
procedures under the recently published NIOSH respirator
certification standard (42 CFR 84 [60 FR 30336]) will introduce
three new classes (N-, R-, and P-series) of particulate filters for
non-powered air-purifying particulate respirators. Each filter type
will be certified at three efficiency levels: 95%, 99%, 99.97%. In
time, these new filter types will replace dust and mist; dust, fume,
and mist; high efficiency, and other types of particulate filters
that were certified under 30 CFR 11. To help respirator purchasers
and users and respiratory program managers determine which of the
new filter types to use in different work environment, NIOSH has
prepared a draft user guideline that will be discussed at this joint
NIOSH/AIHA workshop. Among other things, the guideline will
recommend for the new classes of particulate-filtering respirators
provisions APFs that are based on combined filter and faceseal
leakage. The meeting will not address issues relating to respiratory
protective devices certified under 30 CFR 11.
Contact Person for More Information: Technical information: Walt
Ruch or Jeff Bryant, NIOSH, CDC, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Mailstop C-
11, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, telephone 513/533-8251 and COPIES OF THE
DRAFT GUIDELINES: Copies of the draft guidelines may be obtained
from Kellie Pierson, NIOSH, CDC, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Mailstop C-
34, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, telephone 513/533-8362.
Persons wishing to participate should respond to Anna-Marie
DiPasquale, AIHA, Suite 250, 2700 Prosperity Avenue, Fairfax,
Virginia, 22031, telephone 703/849-8888.
Dated: June 27, 1995.
John C. Burckhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 95-16259 Filed 6-29-95; 8:45 am]
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