Limiting exposure to harmful dusts is one of the most efficient strategies to prevent silicosis. Air quality and dust concentration in the workplace has to be monitored. Routine chest radiographs and ...

In coming months the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold public hearings on one of its most far-reaching new regulations in recent years. OSHA’s proposed silica rule would affect ...

NIOSH's analysis of silicosis mortality in the United States from 1968 through 2005 shows a welcome 90 percent plunge during that period in years of potential life lost to the preventable disease. The ...

The MHSC Silicosis Awareness Roadshow was launched on 4 November 2009 at the Moab Khotsong mine near Orkney. Supported by the employers, unions and the government, its aim is to control and eradicate ...

Jaipur: Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital has started imparting training to its medical officers in districts where the number of silicosis patients is increasing. Under the state-run Silicosis ...

In a case of both the state and Central governments passing the buck, the Union government in its affidavit on Monday on silicosis prevention among the mines workers in Rajasthan said out of about ...

Long before COVID-19 hit, countless workers engaged in mines, construction and factories in India were silently dying of exposure to dust, utmost exploitation and apathy. They continue to do so. One ...

Across the United States, workers are suffering from, and sometimes dying of, the severe lung disease known as silicosis because they are fabricating and cutting “engineered stone” countertops for our ...