Workplace Health and Safety

If It’s Silica… It’s Not Just Dust!

• 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]
  
  
  

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

• 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 CPWR (Center for Construction Research and Training):
  • Working Safely with Silica - A One-Stop Source on Information on How to Prevent a Silica Hazard and Protect Workers
    
    
• From OSHA:
  • Safety and Health Topics: Silica, Crystalline
  • Silica Advisor (e-Tool)
  • Training and Reference Materials Library
    
    
• 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
    
    

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

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