Protect construction, mining and manufacturing workers from respirable crystalline silica by spotting dust sources and using proven exposure controls.
This critical safety training prepares construction and industrial workers to recognize and protect against respirable crystalline silica dust exposure—a serious occupational hazard that causes silicosis, lung cancer, and other fatal diseases. The program covers OSHA's Silica Standard (29 CFR 1926.1153 for construction and 1910.1053 for general industry) and explains why controlling silica exposure is essential for long-term health. Participants will learn where silica hazards occur including cutting, grinding, drilling, or breaking concrete, brick, block, or stone, sandblasting and abrasive blasting operations, jackhammering and chipping, rock drilling and crushing, and demolition work. The course explains how microscopic silica particles, when inhaled over time, cause irreversible lung scarring (silicosis) that can lead to disability and death. Topics include OSHA's permissible exposure limit (PEL) for silica and air monitoring requirements, engineering controls such as water suppression, local exhaust ventilation, and dust collection systems, work practice controls including wet methods and good housekeeping, respiratory protection requirements when controls cannot sufficiently reduce exposure, medical surveillance and lung function testing for exposed workers, written exposure control plans and employee training requirements, using OSHA's Table 1 to identify required control methods for common tasks, and recognizing symptoms of silica-related diseases. This training emphasizes that silica exposure is preventable through proper controls and that early detection through medical monitoring is critical since silicosis has no cure.
Silica exposure training is for workers who cut, grind, drill, crush or blast concrete, stone, brick or block. That includes construction trades, masons, demolition crews, manufacturing workers and miners. Supervisors who select dust controls and write exposure control plans need it too. The 13-minute video is in English with Spanish and French closed captions.
OSHA regulates respirable crystalline silica under 29 CFR 1926.1153 for construction and 29 CFR 1910.1053 for general industry and maritime. Both set a permissible exposure limit of 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air, averaged over an 8-hour day. Both also require a written exposure control plan.
OSHA Table 1 is part of the construction silica standard. It lists common tasks, such as saw cutting and jackhammering, with the dust controls and respiratory protection required for each. Employers who fully follow Table 1 for a task don't have to measure worker exposure for that task.
Breathing respirable silica dust can cause silicosis, an incurable scarring of the lungs. Silica exposure also raises the risk of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and kidney disease. Symptoms often appear years after exposure, which is why prevention and medical monitoring matter.
Under OSHA's construction silica standard, employers must offer medical exams to workers who wear a required respirator for 30 or more days a year. Exams include a chest X-ray and lung function test and repeat at least every three years. In general industry, exposure at the action level for 30 or more days triggers surveillance.
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