MIOSHA Renews the State Emphasis Program for Employee Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure
On September 8, 2021, MIOSHA renewed a State Emphasis Program to reduce employee exposures to respirable crystalline silica (RCS). Workers who inhale RCS are at risk for silicosis — an incurable, progressively disabling and sometimes fatal lung disease and Michigan is one of the top-ranked states for the number of reported cases of silicosis through state surveillance systems. Historically, cutting and demolishing concrete, drilling into mortar, roadway milling, quartz counte