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Engineering Controls and Housekeeping Practices to Reduce Silica Dust Levels

Sep 26, 2016

OSHA’s new silica dust rule sets very strict standards for exposure — a limit of 50 micrograms of respirable crystalline silica per cubic meter of air, averaged over an eight-hour day. For reference, 50 micrograms has roughly the same mass as a fly’s wing. (If...