Materials like sand, stone, concrete, and mortar contain crystalline silica. It is also used to make products such as glass, pottery, ceramics, bricks, and artificial stone. Respirable crystalline ...

A contractor has been fined more than $7,000 for workplace safety violations following a November death at an Auburn ...

A federal appeals court just gave mine operators a reprieve from its strict new silica rule after temporarily blocking it from going into effect.

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More information: Report: Respirable crystalline silica Provided by Karolinska Institutet A new report from the Nordic Expert Group (NEG) and the Dutch Expert DECOS committee has evaluated the ...

Crystalline silica is also used to make products such as glass, pottery, ceramics, bricks and artificial stone. Respirable crystalline silica consists of very small particles of silica (less than 10 ...

Common construction materials (concrete, brick etc) contain Respirable Crystalline Silica or RPS. This silica becomes entrained in the lungs and can lead to silicosis, COPD and cancer- serious ...

When stonemasons are cutting and grinding materials, the carcinogen respirable crystalline silica dust (RCS) is created.

This course covers the development and implementation of controls and strategies to prevent or mitigate silica exposures in construction, maritime, and general industries. Course topics include ...

It involves air pollution in the form of sand, which contains silica. According to the National Cancer Institute (and others), respirable crystalline silica is associated with elevated rates of lung ...

The Minns Labor Government is putting tunnelling companies across NSW on notice by auditing major projects in Sydney and across the state to ensure they are keeping their workers safe from silica dust ...

Due to this, RIT has developed a Respirable Crystalline Silica program to ensure worker safety while working with respirable crystalline silica products. Hazard assessment of RIT operations that use ...