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NIOSH Outlines New Draft Goals For Health Workers’ Protective ‘Technology’

May 17, 2022 at 5:57 PM
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is seeking comments on a strategy to bolster personal protective technology (PPT) for healthcare workers, saying the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to support not only protective gear in the sector but technology supporting it like fit-testing and materials research. NIOSH released its draft PPT targets for 2020-30 on May 16, starting a public-comment period that will run through July 15. Those targets were originally slated to take effect over...

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