NIOSH NPPTL PPT Program Stakeholders Meeting, March 29, 2011

Presentations and Posters from the Personal Protective Technology Program Stakeholder Meeting

PPT Program Stakeholder Meeting Announcement Letter (December 6, 2010)

Information Update for the PPT Program Stakeholder Meeting, March 29, 2011 (February 24, 2011)

Note: The links below go to websites outside of CDC/NIOSH.

Presentations

General

• NPPTL 10 Years
• Welcome
• Public Safety Sector Overview
• Healthcare Sector Overview
• Mining Sector Overview
• Agriculture Sector Overview

Sectors

• Agriculture
  • Overcoming Barriers to Optimal Pesticide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Use Practices Among Pesticide Handlers
• Healthcare
  • Healthcare Sector PPE Research Needs: A Work Environment Perspective
  • Update and Overview of NPPTL Healthcare Worker Personal Protective Equipment
  • Masks and Respiratory Protection for Influenza
  • Overview of Healthcare Worker IOM Report
• Mining
  • Self-Contained Self-Rescuer (SCSR) Designs and Mine Rescue Ensembles – SCSR Design Improvements and Technologies to Address User Needs
  • Avon Overview
  • Draeger Overview
  • Mine Rescue Ensemble Research – Best Practices Learned from the Fire Service
  • Underground Coal, Metal, and Nonmetal Mine Illumination Systems for Improving Miner Visual Performance
    • Video presentation
  • Mine Rescue and Escape Training Laboratory
    • Video presentation 1
    • Video presentation 2
• Public Safety
  • Certification, Selection, Care, and maintenance of Fire Fighting PPE and NIOSH Research on Fire Service Protective Clothing
  • Challenges Related to Turnout Gear from a User’s Perspective
  • NIJ CBRN Protective Ensembles for Law Enforcement, NIJ Standard – 0116.00 (Law Enforcement Responder Levels 1-4 Performance Criteria)
  • Hazard Assessment and Selection of Personal Protective Equipment for Operations in Clandestine Labs

Posters

Poster Abstract Handout

Agriculture

1. Comparison of Workplace Protection Factors for Different Aerosol Contaminants on Agricultural Farms (Not available)
2. The Impact of a Rural Based Personal Protective Equipment Program
3. Listening to the Experts on Personal Protective Equipment: Orchard Managers, Pesticide Handlers, and Pesticide Safety Educators and Agriculture Safety Specialists on PPE Barriers and Solutions in the Tree Fruit Industry (Not available)
4. Updates to the NIOSH National Pesticide PPE Surveillance and Intervention Program
5. Prevalence of Respirator/dust Mask Use Among U.S. Primary Farm Operators: Analysis of the 2006 Farm and Ranch Survey
6. A Partnership for Pesticide Exposure Reduction through PPE Outreach and Education
7. Weak Label Requirements and Inadequate Protective Gear Put Workers at Risk
8. North Carolina's Response to EPA's New Risk Mitigation Measures for Soil Fumigants
   

Healthcare

9. Aromatic Hydrocarbon Adsorption Characteristics of Disposable Filtering Facepiece Respirators that Contain Activated Charcoal
10. Development of a National Demonstration and Sentinel Surveillance System for PPE Usage by Healthcare Workers (HCWs) in the U.S.
11. Protecting Healthcare Workers from an Airborne Respiratory Event: Implementing a Aentinel Surveillance System to Monitor PPE Usage in the United States Healthcare System
12. Respirator Intervention and Evaluation (REACH I&E)
13. Impact of Multiple Consecutive Donnings on Filtering Facepiece Respirator Fit
14. The Impact of a Surgical Mask and Filtering Facepiece Respirators on Human Thermoregulation
15. Ultrasound for the Assessment of Respirator Fit
16. Tensile Properties and Integrity of Cleanroom and Low-modulus Nitrile Exam Glove Formulations
17. Assessment of Research Gaps in Healthcare Worker PPE
18. Laboratory Study to Assess Causative Factors Affecting Temporal Changes in Filtering-Facepiece Respirator Fit: Part II – One Year Assessment of Fit Changes
19. Respirator and Surgical Mask Efficacy for Cough Aerosols
20. Glove Permeation with a Dextrous Robot Hand System
    

Mining

21. NIOSH Hearing Protection Innovations and Evaluations
22. Advances in Chemical Sensing Allow Improvements in PPT
23. Mine Rescue Ensembles for Underground Coal Mining
24. Development of a Novel Kneepad for Mining
25. Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Cap Lamp Research
26. Long Term Field Evaluation of Respiratory Devices
    

Public Safety

27. NIOSH Respirator Certification and Approval
28. Certified Product Investigation Procedures
29. Alarm and Danger Criteria in Foot Temperature to Prevent the Heat Stroke of Workers Wearing Personal Protective Clothing
30. CBRN Respiratory Protection Program Designs
31. CBRN Respirator Training Concept Standard
32. Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Combination Respirator Unit (CRU) Project
33. From Nanoparticles to Novel Protective Garments
34. Wildland Fire Fighting Operations Certification Standards
35. Development of a New Test Chamber with Precise Temperature and Humidity Control for Protective Clothing Chemical Permeation Testing
36. Firefighter Equipment Evaluation Program
37. PPE Development at TDA Research (Not available)
38. Firefighters' Physiological Responses to Boot Weight and Sole Flexibility during Ladder Climbing and Obstacle Crossing
39. Field Evaluation of a New Prototype Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus