Following is a summary of the progress of research and development activities performed during FY 1973 by the Respirator Research and Development Section, Industrial Hygiene Group of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) under an interagency agreement between the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Atomic Energy Commission. The work was done at LASL and was a continuation of the services performed for NIOSH by the AEC under an FY 1972 interagency agreement. As requested in the FY 197 3 interagency agreement, the efforts were concentrated in three major areas: 1) The development of quality control test methods and the correlation of these test methods with the present respirator approval tests in order to provide improved quality control test methods for use by respirator manufacturers and NIOSH. 2) The design, construction, and delivery of respirator test equipment for the performance of quality control tests to the NIOSH Testing and Certification Laboratory at Morgantown, West Virginia, and to the NIOSH Engineering Laboratory at Cincinnati, Ohio, and 3) Develop respirator test methods.
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