Silica Training for General Industry or Construction?
The standard your work falls under decides which of the two silica courses you buy: 29 CFR 1910.1053 for general industry, 29 CFR 1926.1153 for construction work.
- Crystalline Silica Awareness Course. The page you are on, built to 29 CFR 1910.1053. For manufacturing, abrasive blasting, stone fabrication, oil and gas sand handling and other general industry work. Covers the exposure limits, exposure assessment, air sampling, employee notification and records.
- Crystalline Silica in Construction. For construction work, built to 29 CFR 1926.1153. That standard carries Table 1, the specified exposure control methods for common construction tasks. It also puts one designated person in charge of inspecting job sites and keeping the written exposure control plan working. View the Crystalline Silica in Construction
If the work is construction work, take the construction course. If it is general industry, this is the one, and the certificate prints with 29 CFR 1910.1053 on it.
What Your Team Gets From 1910.1053 Silica Training
- Your crew learns what the dust does. Silicosis in its acute, accelerated and chronic forms, where silica dust comes from in general industry work, and what a regulated area sign is telling them.
- Your safety manager learns what to measure. The 50 µg/m³ limit at 29 CFR 1910.1053(c), the 25 µg/m³ action level defined at paragraph (b), and how a sample result is judged against both of them.
- Whoever runs the monitoring learns how. Pumps, cyclones, filter media, calibration and the step-by-step sampling process, with the laboratory methods the standard accepts for silica analysis.
- General industry employers put assessment results in writing to each affected employee within 15 working days, under 29 CFR 1910.1053(d)(6)(i), or post them where everyone affected can read them.
Train the crew and the person measuring at the same time, and the exposure assessment stops being one person's problem.
