The Mine Safety and Health Administration has updated its set of Frequently Asked Questions on the Respirable Dust Rule. The recent updates include more questions and answers regarding medical ...

MSHA has issued a final rule aimed at lowering miners’ exposure to respirable coalmine dust in underground and surface coalmines. According to MSHA, the final rule lowers levels of miners’ exposure to ...

Starting Feb. 1, 2016, mine operators must use continuous personal dust monitors to monitor the exposures of underground coal miners in occupations exposed to the highest respirable dust ...

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), in June, 2016, issued a Final Rule regarding occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica. The Final Rule includes two standards, ...

Nearly all air samples collected from coal mines in August and September complied with stricter new limits on dust even though the industry had argued it would have trouble meeting the standards, ...

Late last month, the Obama administration unveiled new respirable dust standards for the United States’ coal mines which will continue to expose thousands of miners to unsafe levels of coal and rock ...

Beginning in late March, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) will offer a series of free, confidential health screenings to surface coal miners throughout the United ...

In 2003, an industry came together to find a way to control workers’ exposure to respirable crystalline silica during asphalt pavement milling in highway construction. Approximately 367,000 U.S.

To estimate the quantitative relation between exposure to respirable silica dust and risk of an attack of silicosis, 1151 workers exposed to silica dust and employed from 1958 to 1987 in a tungsten ...