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Document for Public Review and Comment:

Quality Assurance Requirements for Respirators
NIOSH Docket 109

January 2009

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has proposed new quality assurance and control requirements for manufacturers of respirators approved by NIOSH or NIOSH and MSHA under 42 CFR Part 84 – Approval of Respiratory Protective Devises.

This docket collects the public comments related to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.  Information submitted to the docket will be considered in the context of developing a Final Rule to update the quality requirements for respirator manufacturers and ultimately the quality of respirators used by the American workforces.  Information on the development of concepts that led to this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking can be found in NIOSH Docket number 001.

Proposed Rule published in the Federal Register, Wednesday December 10, 2008

http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-29236.htm

Supplement to the proposed rule

NPRM.pdf
(231KB; 33 pages)
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Time Frame for Review

Written comments on the document will be accepted from January 21, 2009 through February 9, 2009.   Written comments can be submitted at the Public Meeting or sent to the NIOSH Docket Office, Robert A. Taft Laboratories, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-34, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226 by the close of business on March 21, 2009. All material submitted to the Agency should reference docket number NIOSH-109. All electronic comments should be formatted as Microsoft Word and make reference to docket number NIOSH-109.

Comments will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. ET on February 9, 2009

To submit comments regarding this draft publication, please use one of these options:

  • Send NIOSH comments using this online form

  • Send comments by email.

  • Fax comments to the NIOSH Docket Office: 513-533-8285

  • Send by Mail to:
    NIOSH Mailstop: C-34
    Robert A. Taft Lab.
    4676 Columbia Parkway
    Cincinnati, Ohio 45226

NIOSH Draft Documents for Public Review


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