In fiscal year 2001, Congress allocated funds for NIOSH to establish a new program for personal protective technology research to protect the nation’s miners, firefighters and other emergency responders, and health care, agricultural, and industrial workers. To carry out this research, NIOSH formed the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL). The Laboratory’s mission, like the mission of its parent organization, is to provide world, national, and Institute leadership for prevention and reduction of occupational disease, injury, and death but with special emphasis on those workers who rely on personal protective technologies. The NPPTL is engaged in an active program of.
