Canada

The CSA Group — a not-for-profit standards organization — released for review a new draft standard on the “Selection, Use, and Care of Respirators” (CSA Z94.4:25) for workplaces, specifically including health care. This new standard is designed to ensure much better protection for health-care workers and for everyone seeking health care.

CSA Group is an independent not-for-profit standards organization with international accreditation, including from the Standards Council or Canada. Since it was founded 1919 as the Canadian Engineering Standards Association, it has helped keep Canadians safer by establishing standards for many products, including safety equipment.

From this page: https://whn.global/whn-response-to-canadas-csa-z94-4-25-respirator-standard/

Canada’s national standards body, the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), has released a public draft of CSA Z94.4-25: Selection, Use, and Care of Respirators. This standard reflects decades of science and applies airborne transmission risk assessment consistently across all workplaces, including healthcare. WHN has released the following statements to support the standard and respond to the petition in opposition.

CSA Z94.4-25 represents a long-overdue shift toward protecting healthcare workers and other professionals from airborne hazards. It incorporates modern scientific understanding, including the Source-Pathway-Receiver model, and offers a practical, scalable approach to implementing respiratory protection programs.