Aaron Reeder

Mr. Aaron Reeder is a Deputy Lab Manager in the NIOSH National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL). Mr. Reeder demonstrates exceptional leadership in laboratory safety and modernization across NPPTL to help ensure its exemplary standing in respirator certification and testing.

Mr. Reeder has taken a lead role in procurement for laboratory equipment and identifies equipment needs, assists branch leadership with budgeting, and leads several complex purchase request packages. He also serves as the technical lead for the NIOSH Respirator Approval Program testing labs, providing leadership and mentorship, troubleshoots testing and equipment issues, assesses respirator failures, and identifies new equipment and research needs. In addition, he has taken a lead with laboratory IT and data security needs by representing NPPTL in NIOSH IT initiatives.

Mr. Reeder serves as the primary NPPTL representative to interface with the NIOSH facilities management office. He reviewed blueprints and building designs to ensure the needs were met for the Respirator Approval Program and are adaptable to the needs of future NPPTL research. He was also assigned to the role of NPPTL Standard Testing Procedure Coordinator to oversee the maintenance and update of over 187 publicly available NIOSH standard testing procedures. Through his outstanding leadership the process now is more consistent and efficient.

Mr. Reeder is a remarkable leader and a key resource with an excellent work ethic. Through his leadership, he has improved safety and modernized laboratory equipment and procedures, respirator test procedures and decade-old systems have been improved and publicly updated.