NIOSH is challenging teams of developers to design a mobile application to be used by the public to query the NIOSH “trusted source” site http://knowits.niosh.gov for specific criteria and display all relevant information on the web page, which it calls the “one-stop resource to get reliable respirator information,” in an easy-to-view format on a mobile device. The agency recently reiterated its long-held stance that N95 filtering facepiece respirators fit a broad range of work situations requiring respiratory protection.
