Respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a human carcinogen. [1] Occupational exposure to RCS results in adverse health effects ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has announced that 99 percent of the coal mine dust samples collected from April 1, 2016, through June 30, 2016, were in compliance with its coal mine dust ...

This report compares the monitoring technologies and sampling protocols currently used or required by the United States, and in similarly industrialized countries for the control of respirable coal ...

MSHA has issued a final rule aimed at lowering miners’ exposure to respirable coalmine dust in underground and surface coalmines. According to MSHA, the final rule lowers levels of miners’ exposure to ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Until more information becomes available on the mechanisms underlying nanomaterial toxicity, it is uncertain what measurement technique should be used to monitor exposures in the ...

These equipments will track the content of fine particulate matter in the air, respirable dust sampler, and noise pollution. For instance, the fine particulate sampler samples PM2.5 in the ambient air ...

PARADIP: A team of Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) on Wednesday installed respirable dust sampler and a mobile ambient air quality monitoring unit to check atmospheric pollution in ...