Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Silica”
What compels someone to care? Perhaps it’s because something has personally affected you or someone you know. Or maybe it just happens over time; then something strikes a chord in you and opens the floodgates of a desire to bring about change. For Joel Guth, it was both. And thus, the story of his 20-year dance with silica began. The …
What We’ve Learned In part I of this series on silica dust and the OSHA PEL, we described what a permissible exposure limit (PEL) is and the three factors that make up the OSHA PEL: air, dust and time. We also learned that exposure is calculated in terms of micrograms per cubic meter (μg/m3), and we interpreted the current OSHA …
Have you heard enough about silica over the past year? With the new proposed OSHA rule, confusing standards, studies and opinions it’s easy to get lost in all the information. As a contractor, what do you really need to know about silica? iQ Power Tools President and silica expert Joel Guth will be hosting a silica training webinar with the …
You let the dust fly. You know it’s a problem, but you don’t have a choice. The fact is you run a business and you have to get the job done. We know the problem, because we were contractors. And we’ve spoken with thousands of other contractors. But most of them don’t realize how much silica dust is costing them. …
In our introduction to this series on understanding the OSHA PEL, we described what a PEL is and outlined the three factors which determine the PEL: Air, Dust and Time. Here in part III we’re going to explain the second factor: Dust. There are a few questions we need to answer about dust: How much dust is produced from cutting …
In our introduction to this series on understanding the OSHA PEL, we described what a PEL is and outlined the three factors which determine the PEL: Air, Dust and Time. Here in part II of this series we explain the first factor: Air.
Silica has been a hot topic in the construction industry with the new rule passed by OSHA, which reduced the permissible exposure limit (PEL) to 50 micrograms of respirable crystalline silica per cubic meter of air.
