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Silica Awareness
Are you aware of silica and is your
company complying with the law in regards to silica exposure
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Monitor
Environmental offer a free awareness
presentation to company managements outlining the dangers presented
by exposure to silica, your legal obligations under COSHH and help on
how to determine a silica strategy.
Is
your business affected ? |
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Industry
Do you work in
any of these?
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Occupations
Are you one of these? |
Materials
Are any of these
involved? |
- Abrasive
blasting
- Blast
furnaces
- Brick
Production
- Cement
manufacturing
- Ceramics,
clay, and pottery
- Concrete
mixing
- Concrete
tunnelling
- Construction
- Cutting,
shaping & finishing stone
- Demolition
- Foundry
industry: grinding, moulding, shakeout, core room
- Hand
moulding, casting, and forming
- Jack hammer
operations
- Manufacturing
abrasives, paints, soaps, and glass
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Manufacturer
of concrete products
- Manufacture
of granite or marble worktops
- Metal
casting
- Mining
- Quarrying
- Repair or
replacement of linings of rotary kilns and cupola furnaces
- Rolling and
finishing mills
- Sandblasting
- Setting,
laying, and repairing railroad track
- Steelwork
- Stone,
brick, and concrete block cutting, blasting, chipping, grinding,
and sawing
- Tunnelling
operations
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- Brick mason/stonemason
- Construction labourer
- Crane and
tower operator
- Crushing
and grinding machine operator
- Furnace,
kiln, non-food oven operator
- Grinding,
abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operator
- Hand
moulder/shaper
- Heavy-equipment
mechanic
- Machinist
- Metals/plastics
machine operator
- Moulding and
casting machine operator
- Mining
machine operator
- Miscellaneous
material moving equipment operator
- Millwright
- Operating
engineer
- Painter who
sandblasts
- Production
supervisor
- Rock
driller
- Roof bolter
- Sandblaster
- Steelworker
- Welder/cutter
See
how the chance of death is increased according to
occupation |
- Abrasives
- Coal Dust
- Concrete
- Dirt
- Filter
Aids
- Granite
- Graphite,
natural
- Marble
- Mica
- Mineral
Products
- Paints
- Pavement
- Perlite
- Plant
Materials
- Plastic
Fillers
- Polishing
Compounds
- Portland
Cement
- Sands
- Silicates
- Slag
- Soapstone
- Soil
- Stone
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If you are in
one of the above categories and you are not aware of your duties
under COSHH in regards to silica and the negative health effects
silica can have on your employees then you need advice.
Can you or
your employees answer when asked what silica is and what negative
effect can it have on health ?
A new
Workplace Exposure Limit (WEL) came into force in July 2006 can you
prove you are operating below this new lowered limit ?
Are you doing
everything reasonably practicable to reduce exposure ?
If the answer
to these questions are NO then you are operating outside the
regulations and need advice.
Respirable
silica is a very real threat to industry and the health of its
workers. A problem that the HSE are looking to enforce.
Call monitor
for help, advice and a free initial consultation and
presentation.
(minimal milage cost charged if over 100 miles from our
office base) |
