The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Announces the Following Meeting

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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