Rule changes in 2026, include heat illness prevention and silica exposure; early preparation can mitigate operational ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published new worksite inspection guidelines for its staff regarding enforcement of the respirable crystalline silica standard, which at ...

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 (OSHA) has launched an initiative focused on enhancing enforcement and providing compliance assistance to protect workers in the engineered stone ...

OSHA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on Feb. 18 jointly issued a hazard alert about protecting workers from significant crystalline silica exposure during manufacturing, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the United States, workers are suffering from, and sometimes dying of, the severe lung disease known as silicosis because they are fabricating and cutting “engineered stone” countertops for our ...

Silica exposure remains a serious threat to nearly 2 million U.S. employees working in conditions with high concentrations of general airborne carcinogens. 1 Last year, OSHA took a stand and decided ...