Amending the Medical Evaluation Requirements in the Respiratory Protection Standard for Certain Types of Respirators

What it does

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.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

1 part of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

29 CFR 1910

Before this

2 earlier Federal Register documents under regulation identifier 1218-AD48 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• Aug. 20, 2025 Proposed rule; extension of comment period. Amending the Medical Evaluation Requirements in the Respiratory Protection Standard for Certain Types of Respirators
• July 1, 2025 Proposed rule; request for comments. Amending the Medical Evaluation Requirements in the Respiratory Protection Standard for Certain Types of Respirators

What happens next and when

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.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket OSHA-2025-0006 on Regulations.gov
• Title 29 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register