Silica: The New Permanent 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 permanent standard for exposure to silica. 

This one-hour 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 permanent standard, how it’s different from the emergency temporary standard, and how best to protect your workers from potentially fatal silicosis, lung cancer, and other diseases.

We will cover

• The health hazards and symptoms of airborne RCS exposures
• The epidemic of silicosis affecting California employees in the engineered stone industry, often vulnerable worker populations
• What the new permanent standard is, how it changed from the emergency temporary standard, 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

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