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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

UAB Employee Health is conducting Fit Testing in accordance with OSHA standards for all UAB employees. The purpose of the N95 Respiratory Protection Program is to establish standard operating ...

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.

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 ...