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On December 14, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board approved Cal/OSHA's Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS). This ETS affects employees working in general industry under California Code of Regulation, Title 8, section 5204.
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.
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.
On December 14, 2023 the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board approved Cal/OSHA’s emergency 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 ...
Sacramento —The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board today approved an emergency temporary standard on respirable crystalline silica to protect workers from silicosis. The standard will go into effect on December 29, 2023.
This program includes protections and safeguards for CSUN and auxiliary organizations employees who as part of their normal job duties work on projects involving potential exposure to airborne concentrations of silica.
An Emergency Temporary Standard has been passed in California that will last a year (in effect 12/29/23), with the hopes of a more permanent Standard developed by the time it ends. This initiative serves to protect workers from silicosis by working to decrease their exposure to respirable crystalline silica.
