The Virginia Department of Health and Virginia National Guard are providing Respiratory Fit Testing Train-the-Trainer courses. The course purpose is to ensure organizations that have staff that ...

Health-care workers caring for highly contagious patients in an isolation room must undergo N95 fit test certification to establish that a specific brand and shape of N95 mask can form a perfect ...

The FitTrack software, included with the Occupational Health Dynamics' FitTester 3000, now offers the ability to print a Fit Test Certification Card. This fit test card can be ...

Healthcare providers undergo a complicated process to make sure their N95 masks are doing their job. Members of the public may have a ... Your N95 mask might be worthless without a proper fit test.

Elizabeth Ingham, safety officer with the School of Medicine, fit-tests a decontaminated N95 respirator, which is connected via tubing to a PortaCount fit-tester. The testing. About 100 volunteers are ...

While CQV has begun training sessions about how N95 masks should work, it has not begun fit-testing, where a certified tester uses a machine to see which model of mask fits the worker's face ...

Key takeaways: Nearly 100% of N95 masks pass fit tests after 3 years, suggesting annual tests are not necessary. Moving to 3-year test cycles could save as much as $400 million per year.

Mercy Urgent Care is now offering fit-testing for N95 and other respirator masks in an effort to help medical professionals, essential employees and at-risk individuals stay safe in these ...

About The Study: In this study of 824 N95s used by 412 emergency department health care workers practicing N95 reuse, fit failure occurred in 38.7% of masks after one shift. Trifold N95s had ...