The Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda faces one of its toughest obstacles in rewriting a Biden-era requirement that ...

A worker at a construction site in Rockville, Maryland, breaks up concrete with a jackhammer, creating a cloud of silica dust. The worker is wearing no respiratory protection and no water is being ...

On August 23rd, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a proposed rule aimed at curbing lung cancer, silicosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and kidney disease in ...

On Tuesday, federal officials posted new rules to protect coal and other miners from toxic silica dust, a growing problem in mines that has left thousands sick and dying. It took mine safety ...

Since enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration‘s (OSHA) new silica exposure rule (29 C.F.R. 1926.1153) took effect in September 2017, compliance is gradually growing. However, ...

New tools Consulting the standard’s prescription for controlling silica exposure in drilling, Bill Sandvik, safety director at O’Connell Electric Co., Victor, N.Y., concluded that specially designed ...

On June 23, most provisions of OSHA's silica standard for general industry became enforceable. Many employers still have a long way to go to achieve full compliance. Although the dangers of respirable ...

It is well-known that airborne carcinogens cause various lung and kidney diseases and liver problems, and prolonged exposure can even result in various cancers. Silica exposure remains a serious ...

Workers who breathe in silica dust have twice the normal risk of lung cancer and often develop other lung-related diseases such as asthma. Yet the rules for working with this dust — generated by ...