In March, NIOSH published a new fact sheet (PDF) on assessing the shelf lives of filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs). Although the agency does not currently require providers of approved FFRs to designate shelf lives for their products, a recent NIOSH study has “noted numerous challenges that the PPE community experiences when trying to locate FFR shelf life information,” the fact sheet states. According to the fact sheet, respiratory … Read more...
Welcome to the online presence of the Alberta Local Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). The purpose of the site is to provide information on a variety of issues for both the membership and the public at large. The Local Section is open to anyone interested in, or the promotion of, the field of industrial hygiene in the province of Alberta.
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Flame-Retardant Chemical, Water Disinfection Byproducts Added to Report on Carcinogens
The 15th Report on Carcinogens, a congressionally-mandated publication of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Toxicology Program (NTP), was released in December and includes eight new substances: the flame-retardant chemical antimony trioxide, chronic infection with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), and six haloacetic acids found as water disinfection byproducts. With the exception of chronic infection with H. … Read more...