OSHA & Standards
This NC agency enforces the state’s workplace safety code.
What is the North Carolina Department of Labor?
Employees must be medically cleared before this step in the RPP.
What is fit testing?
This person oversees and enforces the Respiratory Protection Program.
Who is the Program Administrator?
It's the most common type of respirator used in healthcare.
What is the N95 (filtering facepiece respirator)?
PLHCP
What is the Physician or Licensed Health Care Professional?
Respirators must be certified by this federal institute.
What is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)?
The three main record categories maintained under the RPP are medical, training, and these.
What are fit testing records?
Management must provide a selection of these at no cost to employees in the program.
What are respirators?
Employees must do this check every time they put on a tight-fitting respirator.
What is a user seal check?
PAPR
What is a Powered Air-Purifying Respirator?
This hierarchy must be applied before relying on respirators.
What is the Hierarchy of Controls?
This is how often fit testing must be performed for employees in your RPP.
What is annually?
The Program Administrator must arrange or conduct this for all employees annually, before fit testing.
What is training?
If an employee reports breakthrough or fit problems after passing a fit test, they must be allowed to do this.
What is select a different respirator and retest?
FFR
What is a filtering facepiece respirator?
It's the duration an employer must preserve and maintain medical evaluation records.
What is throughout employment plus 30 years?
These are the two general types of OSHA-accepted fit tests.
What are qualitative and quantitative fit tests?
When respirators are defective, the Program Administrator must ensure this occurs.
What is removed from service?
Disposable filtering facepiece respirators worn around infectious patients must be discarded in this type of bag.
What is a biohazard bag?
HEPA
What is a High Efficiency Particulate Air (filter)?
This is the OSHA standard governing respiratory protection programs.
What is 29 CFR 1910.134?
This type of fit test uses Bitrex, saccharin, or irritant smoke.
What is a qualitative fit test?
This component of a RPP requires employers to ensure that their written program is being properly implemented.
What is a Program Evaluation?
The designations N, P, and R on air-purifying particulate respirators indicate the filter’s resistance to this.
What is oil?
IDLH
What is Immediately Dangerous to Life of Health?