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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 ...
- Silica Safety Resources for Stone Fabricators
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- Silica Safety Resources for Stone Fabricators
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.
It 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. The ETS goes into effect on December 29, 2023.
When workers cut, grind, or drill materials that contain crystalline silica, or use industrial sand, they can be exposed silica dust particles. The following program template and resources will aid members in complying with the Cal/OSHA Silica standard by outlining silica controls, training, and proper selection and use of equipment.
15 Μαΐ 2024 · Increasing awareness to employers and employees of the dangerous effects of inhaling respirable crystalline silica dust from tasks like grinding, drilling and cutting, can help save lives and avoid incurable health conditions like silicosis, lung cancer and kidney diseases.
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.
Employers who have employees with occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica are required to protect them under their written silica exposure control plan.
