Silica Hazard Awareness
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Course Overview
OSHA’s Respirable Crystalline Silica standard for construction requires employers to limit
worker exposures to respirable crystalline silica and to take other steps to protect workers.
The standard provides flexible alternatives, which OSHA expects will be especially useful for
small employers. Employers can either use the control methods laid out in Table 1 of the
construction standard, or they can measure workers’ exposure to silica and independently
decide which dust controls work best to limit exposures to the PEL in their workplaces.
Regardless of which exposure control method is used, all construction employers covered by
the standard are required to:
Learning objectives
• Establish and implement a written exposure control plan that identifies tasks that
involve exposure and methods used to protect workers, including procedures to
restrict access to work areas where high exposures may occur.
• Designate a competent person to implement the written exposure control plan.
• Restrict housekeeping practices that expose workers to silica where feasible
alternatives are available.
• Offer medical exams-including chest X-rays and lung function tests-every three years
for workers who are required by the standard to wear a respirator for 30 or more days
per year.
• Train workers on work operations that result in silica exposure and ways to limit
exposure.
• Keep records of exposure measurements, objective data, and medical exams.
Course Overview
CEUs
0.4
CEU Requirements
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100% attendance for the course -
Completion of Continuing Education and Training Registration Form -
Active participation in all class exercises (determined by course instructor) -
Completion of required pre-and post-quiz assessment -
As applicable, achievement of minimum passing score on required end-of-course examination -
Participation and submittal of end-of-course evaluation form (must provide name on form to receive credit)
Prerequisites
No requirement.
Construction employers must comply with all requirements of the standard by September 23,
2017, except requirements for laboratory evaluation of exposure samples, which begin on
June 23, 2018.
Languages: Spanish – English
Hours: 4 Hrs.
Audience: Every worker who wants to enter the Construction Industry must have 4 hours of
Respirable Crystalline Silica training.
Card validity: 4 years