Using a Jackhammer
Using a Right-Angle Saw
Silica Contract Language
Other Dust Control Resources
Reports and Articles

If It’s Silica… It’s Not Just Dust!

Using a Jackhammer

• Reduce Silica Exposure During Jackhammer Work: Use A Simple Water-Spray Dust Control [pdf 582kb]
  
  
• Video Exposure Monitoring (live demo)
  
  
• How to Make Your Very Own Jackhammer Spray Dust Control
  
  
• NJDOT Modifications to Jackhammer Water-Spray and Applications to Other Equipment [pdf 2mb]

• Water Spray Control of Hazardous Dust When Breaking Concrete with a Jackhammer [pdf 878kb]
  

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Using a Right-Angle Saw

• Controlling Dust While Using a Right-Angle Saw [pdf 2mb]
  
  
• Video Exposure Monitoring (live demo)

Other Dust Control Resources

• Dry Cutting and Grinding is Risky Business:
     English [pdf 142kb], español [pdf
     139kb]
  
  
• Silicosis – Learn the Facts!:
     English [pdf 165kb], español
     [pdf 169kb]

• Guides for Managing Crystalline Silica Control Programs in Construction
  
  
• Stop Silicosis in Sandblasters – Use Silica Substitutes
  
  
• Respirators
  
  
• From OSHA:
    - Safety and Health Topics: Silica, Crystalline
    - Silica Advisor (e-Tool)
    - Training Materials
  
  
• From NIOSH:
    - Preventing Silicosis and Deaths in Rock Drillers
    - Preventing Silicosis and Deaths in Construction Workers
  
  
• From the University of Washington
    - Silica Dust on Construction Site
  
  
• From eLCOSH (Electronic Library of Construction Safety and Health)
    - Silica Topics

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Silica Contract Language

• New Jersey Department of Transportation (DOT) (in place) [pdf 17kb]
  
  
• New Jersey Department of Treasury (in place) [pdf 146kb]
  
  

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Field Studies Reports and Articles in the Scientific Literature

Field Studies Reports

• In-Depth Survey Of Dust Control Technology For Cutting Concrete Block And Tuckpointing Brick
  
  
• Control of Respirable Dust and Crystalline Silica from Breaking Concrete with a Jackhammer

Articles in the Scientific Literature

• Silicosis Mortality Among Young Adults in the United States, 1968-2004
  
  
• Risk assessment of silicosis and lung cancer among construction workers exposed to respirable quartz
  
  
• Highway Repair: A New Silicosis Threat
  
  
• Estimating the Total Number of Newly-Recognized Silicosis Cases in the United States

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