The Filtration Efficiency of Bacteria compared to Standard Test Particles

Ilse Tuinman

TNO, Defence, Security and Safety, The Hague, The Netherlands 

NPPTL’s R & D Program for End of Service Life

Jay Snyder

National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh PA USA 

A Combinatorial Method for the Synthesis and Characterization of Multigas Capable Respirator Carbons

Jennifer V. Romero, Jock W. H. Smith, Braden M. Sullivan, J. R. Dahn, and Lisa Croll

1. Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2. 3M Canada Company, OH&ESD, Brockville, Ontario, Canada

Real-Time Fit of a Respirator during Simulated Healthcare Tasks

Jessica Hauge, Marc Roe, Lisa Brosseau, and Craig Colton

University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
23M Company, Occupational Health and Safety Division, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA 

Removal of Toxic Chlorine-Containing Chemicals by Zirconium Hydroxide- Based Sorbent Media

Joseph A. Rossin and Gregory W. Peterson

Guild Associates, Inc., Dublin, Ohio USA 

Respirator Speech Intelligibility Testing with a Highly Trained Speaker

Karen M. Coyne and Daniel J. Barker

Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA

Assessment of efficiency of meltblown filtering materials used for respiratory protective devices against nanoparticles

Krzysztof Makowski, Agnieszka Brochocka

Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute, Lodz, Poland 

Effect of High Relative Humidity on OV Cartridge Performance

Larry A. Brey

3M Occupational Health & Environmental Safety Division, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Evaluation of Filter Media for Particle Number, Surface Area and Mass Penetrations

Lin Li , Zhili Zuo, Daniel Japuntichand David Y.H. Pui

A) Particle Technology Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA;
B) 3M Company, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA 

Going Towards Saturisk 2. Updates and improvements for predicting service life of organic vapors cartridges

Ludovic Tuduri, Florence Janvier, Yves Cloutier, Daniel Cossement, Daniel Drolet, Jaime Lara

Institut de Recherche Robert Sauvé en Santé et Sécurité au Travail- IRSST, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

Scoring Hospital Respiratory Protection Programs using Written Programs and Interview Data

Margaret Sietsema, Lorraine Conroy, Kari Cline, Lisa Brosseau

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Improvements in respiratory protection for Healthcare workers (project BREATHE)

Megan Gosch

Department of Veterans Affairs, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Fit Test Evaluation of an Advanced Respirator Headform

Michael Bergman, Ziqing Zhuang, Joseph Wander, David Hanson, Brian Heimbuch, Michael McDonald, Andrew Palmiero, and Ronald Shaffer

National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh PA USA

Making ESLI part of the Respiratory Protective Device system: A manufacturer’s perspective

Michael L. Parham

Scott Safety, Monroe, North Carolina, USA 

Development of an air sampling system for detecting oxygen leaks from the facepiece of a closed circuit self-contained breathing apparatus

Omar Bekdash, Prakash Chapain, and Arthur Johnson

Biological Resources Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

The ESLI Challenge: It’s About the Requirements

Paul Gardner

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

Flow based oxygen leak detection system in closed circuit self-contained breathing apparatus

Prakash Chapain, Omar Bekdash, and Arthur Johnson

Bioengineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

Prediction of the service life time of cartridges for personal protection: Discussion on the pertinence of 3 models

R. Chauveaua, G. Grévillota, S. Marsteaub, and C. Vallièresa

Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés – CNRS – ENSIC, Nancy CEDEX, France
Laboratoire de Filtration et d’Adsorption-INRS, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France

Conformity Assessment Standards – A Necessity to Support an ISO Respirator Protective Device Standard

Richard W. Metzler

Richard W. Metzler Inc., Houston, PA USA 

Reuse of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go Next?

Ronald E. Shaffer and Edward M. Fisher

National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 

Suitable chemical cartridges against gaseous substances generated from the solutions used for preservative treatment

Saki Tateishi, Norikazu Kurano, Meguru Inai and Hiroshi Yamada

Shigematsu Works Co., Tokyo, Japan

Nanoparticle penetration through filter media and through face seal leakage of N95 filtering facepiece respirators

Samy Rengasamyand Benjamin C. Eimer

Policy and Standard Development Branch, National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh PA USA
URS Corp., Pittsburgh PA USA 

Use of Control Banding Methods in Respirator Selection for Biohazards

Simon Smith

3M Canada Company, OH&ESD, Brockville, Ontario, Canada 

Service life of respirator cartridges with organic vapors: two approaches for a better understanding

Stephanie Marsteau, Bruno Galland

Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité (INRS), Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France 

Future Designs for Low Burden Respiratory Protection

Suzanne Pelfrey

Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK