Enhancement of facial contact pressure and comfort with a foamed inner-shell

Kangsoo Park, Jin-Ho Lee, Jungchul Moon, Dong-Sun Noh, Seung-Joo Lee Paper presented by Kangsoo Park

3M Personal Safety Division, 3M Korea Technical Operations 7, Samsung 1-ro 5-gil, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do 445-170, South Korea 

“Efficiency of Respirator Filter Media against Diesel Particulate Matter”

Kerrie Burto, Jane L. Whitelaw, Alison L. Jones

MSc Research Candidate University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia

Respiratory protective device development featuring gold catalyst technology

L. McEwan, T. Khumalo, G. Pattrick, J. Papo

Advanced Materials Division, Mintek, Private bag X3015, Randburg 2125, South Africa 

Comparing Real-Time Fit Factors to Traditional Fit Factors by OSHA Exercise for N95 Respirators

M Sietsema, L Brosseau

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 

The Enhanced Protection Positive Pressure Respirator (EP3R)

Mark Summers, Claire Hemmings and Suzanne Pelfrey

Physical Sciences Department, Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0JQ, UK

Validation of the ISO Protection Levels – Initial steps

HM50 Design & Development Story – The Challenges of Achieving Integrated Respiratory & Head Protection.

Nick Hunter

Avon Protection Systems, Melksham, Wiltshire, UK 

Utilizing Respiratory Protection to Help Reduce Exposures to Ambient Air Pollution

Nicole McCullough, PhD, CIH

3M Personal Safety Division, 3M Center, 235-2E-91, St. Paul, MN 55144 USA 

Responding to an Employers Challenges to Simulated Workplace Protection Factor Study Protocol

Nicole McCullough, PhD, CIH

3M Personal Safety Division, 3M Center, 235-2E-91, St. Paul, MN 55144 USA 

A Method for Respirator Wearers to Understand the Performance When Wearing the Respirators

Norikazu Kurano, Kenji Tanaka, Toshiyuki Turuoka, Hiroshi Yamada

Shigematsu Works Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Development and use of an anthropomorphic headform with realistic simulated breathing patterns for standardized evaluation of respiratory protective devices

Paul Bodurtha, Eva F. Gudgin Dickson

Calian Technologies, Ottawa, ON.
CBRN Protection Group, Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston ON.
Defence Research and Development Canada, Suffield Research Centre, Ralston AB. 

Investigation of Novel Respirator Facepiece Pressurization Concepts

Paul Gardner and David Caretti

U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA

Prediction of the service life time of cartridges for personal protection in case of multicomponent gas

R. Chauveau, F. Vuong, B. Galland, S. Marsteau, E. Silvente, G. Grévillot, C. Vallières

INRS Centre de Lorraine, Département Ingénierie des Procédés Rue du Morvan CS 60027 54519 VANDOEUVRE Cedex
LRGP, CNRS, UL, 1 rue Grandville, BP 20451, 54001 NANCY Cedex France 

A Web-based Respiratory Protective Equipment Selector Tool

Rajan-Sithamparanadarajah, Nick Vaughan and Mike Clayton

Health and Safety Executive, Redgrave Court, Merton Road, Bootle, England, L20 7HSHealth and Safety Laboratory, Harpur Hill, Buxton SK17 9JN, England
Health and Safety Executive, Redgrave Court, Merton Road, Bootle, England, L20 7HS 

Physiologic and Subjective Responses to Wearing N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators in Advanced Pregnancy

Raymond J. Roberge, Jung-Hyun Kim, Jeffrey B. Powell

From the U.S. National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Factors Impacting Comfort and Tolerance to N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators: Research Results From Project B.R.E.A.T.H.E.

Raymond J. Roberge, Jung-Hyun Kim, Jeffrey B. Powell

From the U.S. National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Evaluation of Faster Fit Testing Methods for Respirators Based on the TSI PortaCount

Richard Remiarz, Aaron W. Richardson, Kent C. Hofacre, Jeff Weed, and Ricky Holm

TSI Incorporated, 500 Cardigan Road, Shoreview, MN 55126
Battelle, 505 King Ave, Columbus, OH 43201
Weed Respiratory Protection Solutions, LLC, St. Paul, MN 55110 

What Level of Risk Are Asbestos Removal Workers Being Exposed to Using Contemporary Rpe?

Robin Howie

Robin Howie Associates, Edinburgh 

Fit Testing: What Does It Achieve?

Robin Howie

Robin Howie Associates, Edinburgh 

Respirators for asbestos removal. A method to evaluate their performance.

S. Chazelet, E. Silvente

INRS 1, rue du Morvan, 54519 Vandoeuvre 

Searching for the best performing respirator filters

Sheng-Hsiu Huang, Chun-Wan Chen, Yu-Mei Kuo and Chih-Chieh Chen

National Taiwan University, College of Public Health, 17 Xu-Zhou Road, Taipei, Taiwan 

Fit of Filtering Facepiece Class 3 (FFP3) Respirators Part 3: Suitability of FFP3 for Real Faces

Shirley Frost

Development Of Requirements for the Special Application CBRN as part of the ISO Respiratory Protection Standard

Simon J. Smith

3M Canada Company, 1360 California Avenue, P.O. Box 665, Brockville, Ontario, Canada K6V 5V8. 

Measuring respiratory resistance of disposable dust masks in highly humidified conditions

Takashi Hamamoto, Toshihiko Myojo, Shoko Kawanami, Jinro Inoueand Seichi Horie

Department of Health Policy and Management, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan 

ISO Standards – how will they arrive in Europe 

Thomas Kruegerke

Head of Standards & Certification, MSA AUER GmbH, Thiemannstr. 1, 12059 Berlin Germany