The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will enforce a significant reduction in the amount of silica that workers can be exposed to beginning September 23. The amount of silica dust ...

The company says its project to replace the material handling system at its Plant 1 facility has dramatically reduced silica ...

Crystalline silica is a basic component of sand, quartz, slate and other minerals. Exposure to airborne crystalline silica can put workers at risk of developing silicosis, a non-curable lung disease ...

Experts from Roadtec, Wirtgen America and Terex Roadbuilding discuss the silica issues and how it affects your equipment Soon, the team came together to begin research on silica dust and the use of ...

Maintaining indoor air quality (IAQ) in manufacturing facilities is essential for worker safety and operational efficiency. Dust generated from various processes can pose significant health risks to ...

Fifteen years ago, dust management in composites manufacturing operations was somewhat unsophisticated. A common solution to the dust generated by cutting, trimming, sanding and grinding was to cut a ...

We obtained lifetime occupational history and other relevant information for 132 newly diagnosed lung cancer cases among nonsmoking Chinese men and 536 nonsmoking community referents. Unconditional ...