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Amending the Medical Evaluation Requirements in the Respiratory Protection Standard for Certain Types of Respirators
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on June 3, 2026. Comments closed on July 6, 2026.
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What the agency says
OSHA is providing an additional comment period to allow interested persons to comment on OSHA's proposal to remove some medical evaluation requirements from the Respiratory Protection Rule, 29 CFR 1910.134, for certain types of respirators. This proposed change would only impact filtering facepiece respirators and loose-fitting powered air-purifying respirators. Following consideration of the rulemaking by OSHA's Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH), OSHA is re-opening the record for this rulemaking to provide an additional 30 days for public comment.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-11093
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule; notice of reopening of the rulemaking record
- Agency
- Labor Department; Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Published
- June 3, 2026
- Comments due
- July 6, 2026
- Dates
- The comment period for the proposed rule published July 1, 2025 at 90 FR 28463 is reopened. Written comments must be submitted on or before July 6, 2026.
- Docket
- Docket No. OSHA-2025-0006
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1218-AD48
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 29 CFR 1910
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 2
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