3m Innovative Properties Company

Robert E Holler

Neal A Rakow

Dean R Duffy

Lawrence J Ptasienski

Cristina U Thomas

Susan E Peters

A filtering face-piece respirator dispenserhaving a containerthat has a constriction apertureand a plurality of filtering, face-piece respiratorsdisposed within the containerin a stacked, at least partially-folded arrangement. The stacked respiratorsinclude an outermost respirator. The constriction apertureis adapted to allow for the outermost flat filtering face-piece respiratorto be manually withdrawn from the containersuch that the outermost respiratorgoes from the at least partially-folded condition to an open condition, making the respirator more ready for donning.

Filtering face-piece respirator dispenser

Methods and systems for tracking compliance of personal protection (PP) articles in working environments. Tracking compliance includes providing at least one PP article configured with a smart tag; providing at least one predetermined criterion that governs compliance with respect to the at least one PP article in a particular working environment; tracking the PP article by retrieving smart tag data; and determining whether the smart tag data satisfies at least one predetermined criterion; and storing data relating to results of the determination.

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Cottage Grove, MN, United States of America

Robert E Holler