Laid-off employees ranged from those working in firefighter health programs, to those approving new respirators.

This NIOSH division had been the government body tasked with vetting safety equipment like N95 masks and breathing devices used by emergency workers. The laboratory’s respirator approval program ...

Most Americans learned what an N95 mask was during the COVID-19 pandemic. But what many still don’t know is that every one of them was certified by a single, government-run lab in Bruceton, Allegheny ...

As leaders of NIOSH ... respirator testing and approval. NIOSH’s facilities to test and approve masks is tied to the competitive advantage of industries, such as 3M, which make N95 masks and ...

Cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health are expected to reduce the agency's workforce by more than ...

Please make CSA-approved CA-N95, KN95, and/or NIOSH N95 respirator masks free and available at all schools and on all school buses. Please encourage staff to model mask-wearing behaviour so that ...

The name N95 actually comes from their certification standards ... A worker at a fracking facility wears a NIOSH-approved respirator. (Image provided by the CDC, 2016) Since the beginning of mass ...