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This webpage gives an overview of standards to control employee exposures to respirable crystalline silica (RCS), which can cause silicosis, lung cancer, and other serious health effects. May 21, 2024. Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) for General Industry.
The Occupational Health Branch at the California Department of Public Health has developed resources for employers to help keep their workers safe and reduce exposure to silica dust. The Workplace Air Monitoring for Silica employer guide (PDF) contains a step-by-step guide to silica air monitoring, to ensure that worker exposures to silica dust ...
If you are cutting, grinding, chipping, sanding, drilling, or polishing engineered stone, quartz, or other stone products, you are at risk of silicosis. In December 2023, Cal/OSHA adopted new standards to protect workers from exposure to respirable crystalline silica.
This ETS includes important revisions to protect workers engaged in high-exposure trigger tasks (cutting, grinding, polishing, clean up, etc.) involving artificial stone and natural stone containing more than 10% crystalline silica.
Quickly clean up silica dust debris using wet methods or HEPA vacuuming to prevent dust from becoming airborne. All employers MUST: • Ensure that wet methods are effective at preventing RCS exposures. • Train employees on silica exposure and silicosis, including risks, symptoms, and control measures.
Employers who have employees with occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica are required to protect them under their written silica exposure control plan.
Create-A-Plan to Control the Dust. You do not need to register to use the planning tool, however, registering will allow you to confidentially save, retrieve, edit, rename or delete saved plans. Only you have access to your saved plans. Register. Returning users login below.
