A respirator is a device you wear to protect you from inhaling dangerous substances. It’s also used to keep dust and particles from being inhaled when doing things like cleaning and painting. People ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) May 8 approved two 3M Co. respirators designed to reduce users' exposure to airborne germs during a flu pandemic or other public health emergency. The 3M ...

An estimated 5 million U.S. workers wear respirators. Employers are required to provide National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-certified respirators using a written respiratory ...

Dust. Fumes. Vapors. Particulate. Gases. Workers in many industries wear respirators to protect them from a wide spectrum of dangerous respiratory hazards. That said, their respirators are only as ...

OSHA has now defined the proper methods to sanitize filtering facepiece respirators such as N95s for reuse following decontamination. Patrick Kapust, acting director of the Directorate of Enforcement ...