New workplace exposure limits for crystalline silica

A revised workplace exposure limit (WEL) has been introduced, from 1 October, for respirable crystalline silica (RCS). The new WEL value for RCS will be 0.1 milligrams of RCS per cubic metre of air averaged over an eight-hour period (expressed as 0.1 mg.m-3).

This will affect employers in the foundry, ceramics, brick manufacture, heavy clay, quarry, industrial minerals, construction and stonemasonry industries, and any other producer or user of silica flour whose employees could be exposed ... (151 more words)

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