What does GIRPS stand for?

General Industry Respiratory Protection Standard (Occupational Safety and Health Administration; US Department of Labor)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The General Industry Respiratory Protection Standard requires annual fit-testing.

Fit-testing rule draws emotional response

A provision in the huge federal appropriations bill that passed in late November prohibits OSHA spending federal funds to enforce the General Industry Respiratory Protection Standard annual fit-testing requirement as it applies to TB.

TB draft guidance ducks fit-tests, urges IC: frequency of worker ...

TB draft guidance ducks fit-tests, urges IC

Meanwhile, hospitals began complying with the General Industry Respiratory Protection Standard for employees exposed to tuberculosis, a rule that requires annual fit-testing of N-95 filtering face-piece respirators.

Congress steps into the fit-testing fight: amendment would halt OSHA ...

Health care facilities throughout the country are very concerned by a recent decision by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to apply the General Industry Respiratory Protection Standard to respiratory protection against M.

APIC appeals to ICPs to write letters to OSHA

[OSHA wrote this letter to Jeanne Pfeiffer, RN, MPH, CIC, APIC president, responding to objections to the application of the General Industry Respiratory Protection Standard (1910.

OSHA hears plea for annual respirator fit-testing delay: hospitals ...

A good-faith effort would have involved issuing a specific proposal to apply the general industry respiratory protection standard to patients with possible TB infection.

AHA is leading a hospital rebellion against OSHA's tuberculosis ...

This debate over fit-testing has been simmering for at least six years--since OSHA implemented a new General Industry Respiratory Protection Standard (1910.

CDC TB guidelines hit fit-testing roadblock over 'periodic' testing: ...