Coal miners, including very young ones, have developed severe respiratory disease in recent decades due in part by silica ...

The mortal danger to construction workers from silica dust is getting worse Stonemason Stuart Johnson would come home from ...

The Exposure Control Plan is available from EH&S. Silica dust hazard training is required of all individuals prior to performing work that involves crystalline silica. Before conducting work that ...

One federal government agency is pausing enforcement of a landmark rule designed to protect mine workers from toxic silica ...

A federal court has granted an industry request to put on hold a landmark rule designed to reduce mine worker exposure to ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday halted implementation of a long-delayed silica dust rule, blaming federal staffing cuts ...

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia, along with Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, criticized the Department ...

New federal rule to limit coal miners’ exposure to silica dust — a leading cause of black lung disease — is being delayed ...

The Minns Labor Government is putting tunnelling companies across NSW on notice by auditing major projects in Sydney and across the state to ensure they are keeping their workers safe from silica dust ...

The rule, from the Mine Safety and Health Administration, was imposed last year in response to an epidemic of severe black ...

The 14 workers’ diagnoses raise many questions, including whether well-known measures to prevent inhalation of silica dust, such as water suppression, fit-tested respirators, on-tool extraction ...