Since 1977, the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS) has actively served the Midwest by offering graduate training programs and continuing education courses in the field of occupational health and safety. This Education and Research Center is sponsored, in part, by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Providing National Leadership in:

• Agricultural Safety and Health
• Industrial Hygiene (including a focus in Hazardous Substances)
• Occupational Injury Epidemiology and Control
• Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing
• Occupational Medicine
• Occupational Health Services Research and Policy

This website was developed by the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS) funded, in part, by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Principal Investigator/Director Susan Gerberich, PhD, Deputy Director, Patricia McGovern, PhD.

"No Fit Test" Respirator Workshop

November 6, 2008
Embassy Suites Airport - Pittsburgh, PA
Register Online (the workshop is free, but registration is required)

This workshop will focus on the nature and process of product innovation and development in negative pressure half-facepiece respirators to gauge the current "state of the art" and to stimulate new designs or approaches for improved respirator fit. The results of this workshop will lead to a better understanding of how future NIOSH research can encourage on-going development of better fitting respirators without compromising long-term protection.

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