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Silica dust can cause silicosis, a serious and irreversible lung disease. It can also cause lung cancer. Cutting, breaking, crushing, drilling, grinding, or blasting concrete or stone releases the dust. As workers breathe in the dust the silica settles in their lungs.
13 Φεβ 2024 · What to know. Prevent respirable crystalline silica exposures and control dust when working around materials that contain crystalline silica such as concrete, mortar, granite, and artificial stone. Follow safe work practices and use engineering controls for equipment or processes to protect workers from health risks.
9 Σεπ 2021 · Activities such as abrasive blasting with silica sand, sawing brick or concrete, sanding or drilling into concrete walls, grinding mortar, manufacturing brick, concrete blocks, stone countertops, or ceramic products, and cutting or crushing stone can result in worker exposures to respirable crystalline silica dust.
Construction dust: Scabbling or grinding. Scabbling and grinding concrete or other construction materials can produce very high levels of silica containing dust. Effective control is necessary...
Silica is the biggest risk to construction workers after asbestos. Heavy and prolonged exposure to RCS can cause lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases. HSE commissioned estimates it...
Crystalline silica is most dangerous to health when dust is generated, becomes airborne and is then inhaled by a worker. Examples of construction work activities that can generate respirable crystalline silica (silica dust): during fabrication and installation of engineered stone countertops ; excavation, earth moving and drilling plant operations
The law. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) cover activities which may expose workers to construction dust. There are three key things you need to do: Assess (the risks) Control (the risks) Review (the controls)
