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This course covers the following information:

Silica Safety in Industrial and Construction Environments: Respirable Crystalline Silica and Its Hazards

  • What crystalline silica is.
  • Where crystalline silica can be encountered in the workplace.
  • What respirable crystalline silica is.
  • The health hazards that can result from exposure to silica dust.

Silica Safety in Industrial and Construction Environments: OSHA's Silica Safety Standards

  • The types of work activities that can expose you to respirable crystalline silica.
  • How Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations can help protect you from the hazards of silica dust.

Silica Safety in Industrial and Construction Environments: Silica Exposure in the Workplace

  • How employers are required to assess exposure to silica dust in a workplace.
  • How OSHA's "action level" and "Permissible Exposure Limit" guide the implementation of silica dust control systems.
  • How "Table 1" in OSHA's Silica Standard for Construction guides employers in controlling silica dust on their job sites.

Silica Safety in Industrial and Construction Environments: The Exposure Control Plan

  • The purpose and content of a typical exposure control plan.
  • The types of "control systems" that can be used to reduce exposure to respirable crystalline silica.
  • The types of silica safety training that can be provided under an exposure control plan.

Silica Safety in Industrial and Construction Environments: Control Systems, Safe Work Practices and PPE

  • How control systems, safe work practices and personal protective equipment (PPE) can help to protect you from exposure to silica dust.
  • The equipment and safe work practices that you should use to avoid exposure to silica dust.

Silica Safety in Industrial and Construction Environments: Medical Surveillance and Recordkeeping

  • How medical surveillance helps protect the health of employees whose work involves exposure to respirable crystalline silica.
  • The types of testing that are included in a medical surveillance program.
  • What types of records the OSHA Silica Standards require employers to maintain.
  • Who can have access to the required records.