OSHA Proposes Respiratory Protection Standard Revision

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published a rule-making proposal to include in its respiratory protection standard assigned protection factors (APFs) for selecting respirators.In a separate proposal, Fed-OSHA proposed a new fit-testing protocol for shipyard and construction workers.The first proposal would supersede the respirator selection provisions of existing substance-specific standards. The agency published a major revision of the respiratory prot