On January 22, 2019, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to provide guidance to general industry employers on OSHA’s final rule regulating occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica in general industry. The rule requires employers to reduce exposures to respirable crystalline silica to below a permissible exposure limit (PEL) of 50 µg/m3 measured as an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA). Other requirements of the standard are triggered if exposures exceed an action level (AL) of 25 µg/m3 measured as an 8-hour TWA. OSHA developed the FAQs in consultation with industry and union stakeholders. The FAQs provide important interpretations of several of the provisions in the rule and provide employers with additional flexibility for compliance.
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