Silica: The New Emergency Standard and How it Applies to You

If your business works with artificial and/or natural stone, and your employees are engaged in high-exposure trigger tasks such as cutting, grinding, polishing, or cleaning up debris from those materials, you need to know about California’s new emergency temporary standard (ETS) for exposure to silica.

This virtual webinar, led by experts from the California Department of Public Health, Cal/OSHA and State Fund, will walk you through everything you need to know about the emergency standard, how it’s different from the regulation previously in place, and how best to protect your workers from silicosis and other lung disease.

Who should view?

Safety managers and supervisors that have workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica (RCS), especially those working in the engineered and natural stone industries.

We will cover

• The health hazards and symptoms of excessive RCS airborne exposures
• The epidemic of silicosis affecting California employees in the engineered stone industry, often vulnerable worker populations
• What the new temporary standard is, when it went into effect, and what you need to do to comply-including new requirements for respiratory protection, employee exposure monitoring, regulated areas, and written exposure control plans
• And much more 

Photo courtesy of NIOSH.