Industry Warns Functional NIOSH Key To MSHA Respirator Plan Success

A mining industry group is warning that a “fully functional” National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is vital to ensuring the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) can achieve the goals of its proposal to ease the process for using certain respirators in mines. The Essential Minerals Association (EMA) supports MSHA’s proposal to increase the availability of so-called non-permissible powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs), one of a suite of regulatory reform proposals the Trump administration unveiled in July...