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According to a California advisory, respirators should only be used as a last resort. https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh_publications/Engineered-stone-counters.p
by jcampbell1 3y ago
According to a California advisory, respirators should only be used as a last resort.
https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh_publications/Engineered-stone-counters.pdf https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/dosh_publications/Engineered-sto...
In New Jersey which also has lots of stone cutting, doesn’t allow dry cutting and has entirely different advice.
https://www.nj.gov/health/workplacehealthandsafety/documents/occupational-health-surveillance/dry_cutting.pdf https://www.nj.gov/health/workplacehealthandsafety/documents...
- cryptonector 3y agoThere's not as much difference as you say. The NJ page says > New Jersey law (N.J.S.A. 34:5-182) requires that employers provide workers with full-face air-purifying respirators when engineering controls cannot be used. Use of respirators should be part of a complete respiratory protection program. While the CA page says Respirators should only be used: • As a last resort for protection when local exhaust ventilation or water controls are not feasible or do not adequately control employee airborne exposures. • Where exposures exceed the permissible exposure limit (50 μg/m3, 8-hour TWA) while installing or implementing feasible engineering and work practice controls. • When the employee is in a regulated area. I.e., both say that other measures must be applied first.