. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 8.

Published in final edited form as: Workplace Health Saf. 2016 Aug;64(8):359–368. doi: 10.1177/2165079916657108

Table 1.

Number of Respondents Reporting RPD Use in Their Facilities in the Past Year by Type, Including During Training/Fit Testing

	2014 n/N (%)^a	2015 n/N (%)^a
Used an N95 FFR in past year	296/314 (94.3)	221/232 (95.3)
Used a PAPR in past year	234/299 (78.3)	173/225 (76.9)
Used an EHFR in past year	89/290 (30.7)	57/220 (25.8)

Note. RPD = respiratory protective devices; FFR = filtering facepiece respirators; PAPR = powered air-purifying respirators; EHFR = elastomeric half-facepiece respirators.

n = the number of respondents for that question, participants responded for each respirator type separately (see Table 4, Questions 2, 5, and 8).