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Meeting 2: Committee to Review the NIOSH Personal Protective Technology Program
December 17-18, 2007
The National Academies Keck Center
500 Fifth Street NW
Washington, DC
AGENDA
Monday, December 17, 2007
Room 100
OPEN SESSION
7:30 - 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:05 Welcome - John Gallagher, Chair
8:05 – 9:45 Discussions with NIOSH staff
9:45 – 10:00 Break
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Questions to the Panelists
1. What improvements in personal protective technology (PPT) in the past 10 years have led to documented decreases in hazardous exposures, morbidity, or mortality in the workplace? In what ways and to what degree has the NIOSH PPT program played a role in those improvements?
•Please identify those items where the PPT Program’s work is especially relevant and also efforts that are less relevant to their mission.
•Please give specific examples of NIOSH’s success and impact in this area and examples where there are opportunities to make a greater impact.
2. What do you see as significant emerging research needs or opportunities in PPT? How does NIOSH obtain stakeholder input into identifying these emerging issues and targeting new research?
3. What NIOSH products or services do you use and what ideas do you have for improving these products or services?
4. What could the NIOSH PPT program be doing that it is not now doing with respect to research, policy and standards development, and respirator certification? What should the program continue to do in these areas?
10:00 – 11:00 Panel 1: Federal and State Agencies
Moderator: Howard Cohen
Panelists:
John Steelnack, OSHA (confirmed)
Stephan Graham, InterAgency Board (confirmed)
David Caretti, DoD (confirmed)
Laura McMullen and Jeff Kravitz, MSHA (confirmed)
Discussion
11:00 – 12:15 p.m. Panel 2: Employers and Employees
Moderator: Knut Ringen
Panelists:
Dee Woodhull, (confirmed)
Dean Cox, Fairfax County Fire Department (confirmed)
Michael Wright, United Steelworkers (invited)
Dennis O’Dell, United Mine Workers Association (invited)
Robert Glenn, American Sand Association (confirmed)
Discussion
12:15 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch – Keck Atrium
Use the stairs or elevators to the 3rd floor.
Committee members and speakers have blue lunch tickets, please sign, and turn the
ticket in to the cashier.
1:00 – 2:15 Panel 3: PPT Manufacturers
Moderator: Janice Bradley
Panelists:
James Zeigler, DuPont (confirmed)
Zane Frund, MSA (confirmed)
Wes Kenneweg, Draeger (invited)
Patricia Freeman, Globe Manufacturing (confirmed)
Craig Colton, 3M (confirmed)
Discussion
2:15 – 3:15 Panel 4: Standard Setting and Certifying Organizations
Moderator: Jimmy Perkins
Panelists:
Jeff Stull, International Personnel Protection, ASTM (confirmed)
Bruce Teele, National Fire Protection Association (confirmed)
Pat Gleason, Safety Equipment Institute (confirmed)
Steve Corrado, Underwriters Laboratories (invited)
Discussion
3:15 – 3:45 Break
3:45 – 5:00 Discussions with NIOSH staff
5:00 – 5:45 Public Comment (registered speakers)
5:45 p.m. Adjourn
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Room 109
CLOSED SESSION
7:30 - 4:00 Closed Session of the Committee to Review the NIOSH Personal Protective Technology
Program
**Online Meeting Registration is available for attendance of the open session of this meeting.
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