The Construction Safety Council launches an initiative to curb the risk of silicosis by educating construction workers on protective practices and exposure limits. In response to the growing threat of ...

OSHA Publishes New Construction Industry Silica Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). With no fanfare whatsoever, OSHA supposedly began enforcing the new Silica Standard on July 23. Compliance with most ...

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 ...

ClickSafety's Respirable Crystalline Silica Awareness in Construction and Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction for the Exposed Worker are training courses designed to educate construction ...

Contracting firms that can demonstrate they are attempting to comply with a new federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration limit on silica dust levels in construction workplaces will have a ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is requesting information and comment on Table 1 of the agency’s Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard for ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has pushed back the date on which it will begin to enforce its new, more-stringent silica dust exposure standard for the construction industry. OSHA, ...

It took just five days for a new group calling itself the Construction Industry Safety Coalition to declare its opposition to OSHA's proposed rule to halve the existing general industry permissible ...

A key component in preventing overexposure to silica and subsequent disease is to have at least one individual on the job site who is capable of recognizing and evaluating situations where ...

Shawmut Design and Construction, a leading $2.3 billion national construction management firm, hosted its 17th annual ...

Full enforcement with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s new respirable crystalline silica rule in the construction industry began on October 23, 2017, according to the agency. The ...

Tunnel construction workers in Australia’s most populous state were repeatedly exposed to dangerous levels of respirable crystalline silica on major government projects between 2016 and 2020, ...