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Buying a box of N95 respirators and handing them to employees does not necessarily satisfy OSHA's respiratory protection requirements. When respirators are required to protect employees from workplace hazards, OSHA's...

The word disposable makes N95 respirators sound simple. Wear one. Take it off. Throw it away. In some situations, that is exactly what should happen. But a disposable filtering facepiece...

Welding produces more than sparks and heat. Depending on the process, metal, coating, filler material, and ventilation, welding can generate a complex mixture of airborne metal fumes, gases, vapors, and...

Woodworking creates dust almost everywhere. Table saws throw it into the air. Sanders create clouds of fine particles. Routers, planers, jointers, miter saws, and CNC machines can all generate airborne...

Put a 3M 8210 and a 3M 8210V next to each other and the biggest difference is obvious. One has a valve. One doesn't. What isn't quite as obvious is...

You put on an N95 respirator at the beginning of a shift. A few hours later, it still looks clean, the straps are intact, and breathing through it feels normal....

dTwo workers can perform the same job, face the same airborne hazard, and still prefer completely different respirators. That is one reason 3M offers several styles of disposable N95 respirators...

Walk into any industrial supply store or browse respirators online, and you will quickly encounter an alphabet soup of ratings: N95, P95, P100, R95, N100, and more. For someone purchasing...

Walk onto almost any construction site, manufacturing facility, fabrication shop, or maintenance department, and you will likely see a familiar name printed across workers’ respirators: 3M. For decades, 3M has...