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.

Call for posters: please consider submitting a proposal for a poster presentation at this event. Posters are being solicited from all areas related to respirator fit and may address both formal research topics as well as more informal, practical experiences with respiratory protection (e.g., management of a respiratory protection program). A short (100 words) abstract should be sent no later than October 10, 2008 to: Lisa M Brosseau brosseau@umn.edu or call 612-624-3143 for information.

Questions? Email cwestern@umn.edu
Read the workshop program agenda
Read more about the No Fit Test Respirator Workshop

Annual AIHA-UMS Professional Development Conference

Occupational and Environmental Health Risks: Assessment, Communication and Management
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Edina Country Club

Register for the AIHA-UMS event online