EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES STRICT MEASURES TO PROTECT WORKERS FROM SILICA CARCINOGENS
October 1st, 2017
THE EUROPEAN Parliament this Wednesday (October 25) has approved a binding workplace limit saying mineral workers should not breathe air with more than 0.1 mg/m3 (milligrams per cubic metre) of respirable crystalline silica (RCS) particles present.
This health and safety rule is part of a revision of an existing European Union (EU) directive 2004/37/EC on protecting workers from carcinogens and mutagens.
The new rules also specify that the European Commission “will evaluate the need to modify” this silica in air limit during a future evaluation of how the ...
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