Risks that you can live with regulations that you can live without regulation of crystalline silica and hexavalent chromium in the cement industry

Author

Savit, Mark N. ; Abrams, Adele L.

Author_Institution

Patton Boggs, Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

20-24 Apr 1997

Firstpage

371

Lastpage

383

Abstract

Lately, the regulation of airborne contaminants has become a major focus of both the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA) and Mine Safety Health Act (MSHA) in the USA. Given this focus, the mining industry in general, and the cement industry in particular, must be particularly sensitive to regulatory trends regarding airborne or dustborne pathogens or irritants. Recent developments reveal that several disturbing trends are building in the regulatory environment. Two of them are explored in this paper

Keywords

air pollution control; cement industry; dust; health hazards; legislation; safety; Mine Safety Health Act; Occupational Health and Safety Act; USA; air emissions control; airborne irritants; airborne pathogens; cement industry; crystalline silica; dustborne irritants; dustborne pathogens; hexavalent chromium; regulations; regulatory trends; Accidents; Cement industry; Crystallization; Employment; Force measurement; Health and safety; Injuries; Mining industry; Occupational safety; Silicon compounds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cement Industry Technical Conference. 1997. XXXIX Conference Record., 1997 IEEE/PCA

Conference_Location

Hershey, PA

ISSN

1079-9931

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3962-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CITCON.1997.599409

Filename

599409