Clarification of the medical evaluation provisions of the revised respiratory…

Filnamn: Clarification of the medical evaluation provisions of the revised respiratory protection standard.

This 1998 OSHA interpretation letter clarifies medical evaluation requirements under the respiratory protection standard, stating that employers must provide evaluations for employees required to wear respirators and for voluntary elastomeric facepiece users, and that employers must pay physicians' fees and employee time if employees' own physicians are used.