Before an employee may be required to use any respirator with a negative or positive pressure tight-fitting face-piece, the employee must be fit tested with the same make, model, style, and size of respirator that will be used. The Production shall ensure that employees using a tight-fitting face-piece respirator pass an appropriate OSHA-accepted qualitative or quantitative fit test. Please reference the Approved Fit Testing Protocols.
In addition, employees using tight-fitting face-piece respirators must be fit tested at least annually thereafter or whenever conditions that could affect respirator fit develop.