Researchers have tested a variety of popular hacks for improving the fit of KN95 and surgical masks, and found that while some hacks do improve fit, they can also come at the cost of the wearer’s ...

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That's why a team at MIT has designed a device to assess how well a mask fits an individual user, quickly and easily. Known as cMaSK (conformable multimodal sensor face mask), the tool was designed to ...

The respiratory protection standard includes a requirement for a medical clearance for required use of tight-fitting respirators and for some specific respirators even with voluntary use. In my ...

Registration is now open for Fleming College’s Winter 2026 First Aid/CPR and Mask-Fit Testing certification courses, announced Tuesday.

The Victorian government has not started rolling out professionally fitted N95 masks to all hotel quarantine workers, despite fears it was one of the key protocol gaps that allowed the virus to escape ...

Catherine Clase is a member of the Cloth Mask Knowledge Exchange, a research and knowledge translation group that includes industry stakeholders. Industry stakeholders contribute to the Cloth Mask ...