Symptoms can appear weeks to years after exposure and usually worsen over time. Quartz and other stone countertops contain ...

Following a Health and Safety Executive case where a South Yorkshire stone company was fined £20,000 after repeatedly failing ...

Shelly Asquith, health and safety policy officer at the federation of Trade Unions, said current exposure limits for silica dust have been set "far too high". She said: "Research shows if we were ...

Since 2019, over 230 workers in California have developed silicosis, an incurable, progressive disease caused by exposure to silica dust. Fourteen related deaths have been reported, according to ...

silicosis is an enduring scourge of concrete and masonry construction. The damaging effects of ongoing exposure to airborne silica were familiar even to the ancient Greeks and Romans. When inhaled ...

On December 19, 2024, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board unanimously approved a proposal to make permanent amendments to its regulation ...

It will help ensure compliance and save management time on enforcement efforts. With respect to silica exposure in construction and related fields, a respiratory protection program should be part ...

It’s an experience shared by stonemasons, tradies and mine workers across Australia, now paying the price of silica dust exposure. “It’s been hard,” Mr Robson says. “Being taken out of a ...

Silicosis is only one of many diseases that can follow silica exposure, but these frequently go unrecognised. Tunnel workers are exposed to high levels of crystalline silica.Credit: Kate Geraghty ...

We cannot understand that people are being expose [sic] to high levels of silica dust and do nothing about it.” Despite governments seeking to limit the exposure of tradespeople to engineered ...