The Personal Protective Technology Program at NIOSH Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2008) / Chapter Skim
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and specifically focuses on the relevance and impact of this program in reducing hazardous exposures and improving worker health and safety. The report also identifies important emerging issues in the future of PPT and closes with recommendations targeted at enhancing personal protective technologies for all workers.
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The committee included members with expertise in occupational health, emergency response, health care, personal protective equipment manufacturing, employee organizations, respiratory protection, dermal protection, injury protec tion, and program evaluation. The committee was tasked with reviewing the NIOSH PPT Program and evalu ating the program's relevance to and impact on occupational health and safety.
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The brief overview of PPT provided below describes the context of PPT within other occupational safety and health efforts and also highlights the roles of federal agencies and other organizations involved in PPT. This section draws on text from the 2008 Institute of Medicine report Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic: Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers.
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The contribution to disease and injury prevention provided by each of these layers of exposure control (including PPT) is likely to vary considerably based on the specific tasks and local conditions. It is also important to note that personal protective technologies are used by the general public in settings that range from hobbies to home-based businesses to protection against infectious disease.
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has federal regulatory authority to provide manufacturers with the approval or clearance to market personal protective devices used in health care. PPT products that claim to provide protection against a specific health hazard must have FDA approval or market clearance.
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The PPT Program encompasses the PPT-relevant work conducted within several NIOSH divisions that addresses occupational protection against respi ratory, dermal, and injury hazards. The NIOSH intramural activities related to PPT to reduce respiratory and dermal hazards are performed primarily within the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL)
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PPT Program Efforts The NIOSH PPT Program works to fulfill its mission through three major areas of endeavor: (1) respirator certification, (2)
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Objective 4. Improve reliability and level of protection by developing criteria that influ ence personal protective equipment designs to better fit the range of facial dimensions of respirator users in the U.S.
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As described in Chapters 2 and 3, the PPT Program's research portfolio is focused on PPT for respiratory protection, with a smaller but growing component of research on protective clothing and other types of PPT. The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
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cUnit conducts PPT-related efforts relevant to injury hazards. NIOSH's work in PPT also involves participating in the development of rel evant regulatory standards and consensus standards.
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In 2001, a congressional mandate to expand NIOSH's occupational safety and health research included a directive for NIOSH to establish a National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory. The congressional intent, as outlined in Senate Report 106-293, stated that [i]
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The evaluation is to take the form of qualitative nar rative assessments as well as the assignment of two integer scores between 1 and 5 for the relevance and impact of the Personal Protective Technology Program. The guidance in the Framework Document reflects the terminology and orga nization of a logic model adopted by NIOSH to characterize the steps in its work.
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NIOSH laboratories and interpret policies and academic other facilities "accessed" through standards relating to institutions; health grants, cooperative respirator Policies and Standards and safety officers/ agreements, and performance, quality, (42 CFR 84) professionals; contracts reliability, efficacy, and media knowledge and -related injury, personal protectiveadvancing design knowledge and application personal and death by technologies Direct and carry out NIOSH Respirator Respirator certification NIOSH Certification Program certified To prevent workapplication of of illness, protective technologies the state of respirators Respirators Audit respirators and Investigation reports; Respirator compliance reports; To prevent work -related injury, M ISSION death by advancing the state of undergoing NIOSH manufacturing manufacturers evaluation, process; conduct user notices; recall/ investigation, and/or problem retrofit letter; stop sale Respirators certification processes investigations; long- notice; certification term field evaluations revocation; Respirator Selection Logic; Certified Equipment List Partnerships with standards development organizations (e.g., ISO , ANSI, NFPA, ASTM)
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An assessment of the worth of NIOSH research and its products by outside stakeholders (e.g., production of standards or regulations based in whole or in part on NIOSH research; attendance at training and education programs sponsored by other organizations; use of publications, technologies, methods, or recommendations by workers, industry, and occupational safety and health professionals in the field; citations of NIOSH research by industry and academic scientists)
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2007b. NIOSH Personal Protective Technology Program: Evidence for the National Acad emies Committee to Review the NIOSH Personal Protective Technology Program.
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