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’s proposal to beef up regulations on workers’ exposure to silica dust is generating a lot of controversy. The agency says current rules are outdated, difficult to understand, and inconsistent ...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced an OSHA initiative aiming to improve enforcement and compliance in the engineered stone fabrication and installation industries. “Many workers in the ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration's (MSHA) proposed rule suggests a decreased Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) for respirable crystalline silica. In the mining industry, workers can be exposed ...

On Sept. 25, OSHA launched a new initiative focused on enhancing enforcement and providing compliance assistance to protect workers in the engineered stone fabrication and installation industries.

We’ve heard a great deal of talk in recent months about respirable crystalline silica dust. OSHA’s new standard, which reduces the permissible amount fivefold, is sure to mean changes on some job ...

Exposure to crystalline silica has been known to be a problem since the pyramids were built. In fact, silicosis is one of the oldest known occupational diseases. Francis Perkins, who served as the U.S ...

A proposal from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to toughen the silica-dust rule has drawn sharp reactions from business and labor groups. OSHA says the rules will protect ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration launched a new initiative focused on enhancing enforcement and providing compliance assistance to protect workers against ...

On Tuesday, federal officials posted new rules to protect coal and other miners from toxic silica dust, a growing problem in mines that has left thousands sick and dying. It took mine safety ...