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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.
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.
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 ...
temporary standard (ETS) on respirable crystalline silica (RCS). 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.
This document is meant to inform you, the employer, of Cal/OSHA’s requirements under section 5204 to protect workers who cut, grind, polish or otherwise create dust from artificial or natural stone. To ensure compliance with section 5204, employers should consult the full standard.
Employers who have employees with occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica are required to protect them under their written silica exposure control plan.
Silica Emergency Temporary Standard: Information for Workers California is experiencing a silicosis epidemic among artificial stone fabrication workers. Artificial stone has become more widely used, especially in the manufacture of countertops. It contains more than 93% crystalline silica — more than double that for granite — so it is more
