What you are going to learn
This online silica awareness training course presents an overview of the controls needed to prevent workers from contracting silica-based illnesses. Safety training topics include hazard communication standards, applicable regulations, and best practices to reduce the dangers of exposure to silica in construction work.
Crystalline silica is found in many common materials and products, such as sand, stone, mortar, concrete, and bricks. While it is an important construction material, silica exposure also puts workers at risk of inhaling small respirable crystalline silica particles in the air, known as silica dust. Workers may inhale silica dust during common workplace operations involving cutting, sawing, drilling, and crushing of silica-based materials.
Who This Course is For
This silica certification course is designed for anyone who works in or around common workplace operations that can result in inhalation of silica dust. This includes, but is not limited to, operations using sand products (such as sand blasting), as well as operations involving cutting, sawing, drilling, and crushing of concrete, brick, block, rock, and stone products. Safety training may help prevent serious injury in the workplace and save lives.
This online certification course meets the requirements set forth by OSHA for construction silica training
🔉Consequences For Not Training?
Case Study: A 55-year-old man had worked for 30 years as a building renovation mason when he was diagnosed with silicosis in 1994. He was able to continue working after he was diagnosed. For 25 years, this worker used an air-supplied respirator while sandblasting. Sand was the usual abrasive. He was involved in sandblasting as many as 12 times per year. Sometimes, the mason used a handheld masonry saw with no water flowing onto the blade, although he usually wore a disposable particulate filter respirator.
Key Takeaways: Sandblasting is the most common cause of silica-related diseases. Special care must be taken when performing this type of work.
