The Virginia Department of Health and Virginia National Guard are providing Respiratory Fit Testing Train-the-Trainer courses. The course purpose is to ensure organizations that have staff that ...

A Comparison of Surgical Masks, Surgical N95 Respirators, and Industrial N95 Respirators The most important thing to remember about surgical masks is that they are not designed to pass a fit test ...

A fit test using a PortaCount® Respirator Fit Tester finishes in less than 2 ½ minutes for any respirator, including any N95 mask. Adding the pre-test 5-minute comfort assessment, users can ...

Elizabeth Ingham, safety officer with the School of Medicine, fit-tests a decontaminated N95 respirator, which is connected via tubing to a PortaCount fit-tester. The testing About 100 volunteers are ...

The massive increase in the use of N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) has sparked an equal increase in the need for workplace respirator fit testing.

Trifold N95s had higher incidence of fit failure compared with dome N95s. These results may inform pandemic preparedness, specifically policies related to N95 selection and reuse practices.

N95 respirators cannot protect the wearer properly if it does not fit them properly. Contaminated air can leak into their masks, resulting in breathing hazardous elements to include the COVID-19 ...

UAB Employee Health is conducting Fit Testing in accordance with OSHA standards for all UAB employees. The purpose of the N95 Respiratory Protection Program is to establish standard operating ...

Covering N95 filtering facepiece respirators with a face mask can cause respirator leaking and failure, according to a study among health care workers.

For decontaminated respirators, researchers assessed fit on human subjects and examined filtration efficiency. N95 respirators can be safely and effectively decontaminated with vaporized hydrogen ...