CBRN Closed-Circuit, SCBA, and PAPR Public Meeting

Meeting Presentations

Date: December 13, 2005

Place: Sheraton Station Square Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Continued Discussions of Concepts for Standards for Approval of Respirators for Use Against Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Agents (CBRN) and Concepts for Standards for Industrial Powered Air Purifying Respirators

Standards Development Efforts for CBRN CC-SCBA - John G. Kovac

Modeling the Dissipation of Oxygen from an Outward Leak of a Closed-Circuit Breathing Device - Kathryn Butler, Rodney Bryant, John Kovac