Washington — The Mine Safety and Health Administration has scheduled a collection of public meetings on its lately revealed proposed rule on employee publicity to respirable crystalline silica.
The meetings are slated to happen Aug. 10 at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beckley, WV; and Aug. 21 at the Denver Federal Center in Colorado.
Attendees can also attend nearly. Links can be found on MSHA’s silica rulemaking webpage. Anyone all in favour of talking throughout the meetings could register upfront however isn’t required to take action.
Workers can inhale silica mud throughout operations together with mining, slicing, sawing, drilling, or crushing supplies akin to rock and stone. Crystalline silica can injury lung tissue and result in black lung illness, persistent obstructive pulmonary illness or incurable silicosis.
On July 13, MSHA revealed a proposal that may decrease the permissible publicity restrict for silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air over an 8-hour time-weighted common. That’s half the earlier restrict and similar to an OSHA PEL established in 2016.
The deadline to remark on the proposed rule is Aug. 28.
