NIOSH

[nahy-osh]

noun

1. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Example Sentences

Niosh’s limits for formaldehyde and tributyl phosphate are for a period of up to 10 hours over a 40-hour work week.

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The 58-year-old, who has short, greying hair, hazel eyes and three graduate degrees, hadn’t been ready to leave NIOSH’s Health Effects Lab in Morgantown, West Virginia, a place where she had mentored young colleagues, taught a lunchtime meditation class and helped conduct several yearslong research projects.

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Throughout the seven presidential administrations that governed while she had been at NIOSH, her work had been utterly uncontroversial.

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Because KN95 masks aren’t overseen and vetted by NIOSH, they aren’t considered as effective as the U.S.-certified N95 masks.

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Since KN95 aren’t actually certified by NIOSH, they usually come at a lower financial cost than high-grade N95 masks.

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