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Should We Ban the U.S.’s Favorite Worktops?

July 7, 2025

By: Tim Turney, Contributor Remodelling a kitchen can be a major household investment and, despite the additional cost, many homeowners are opting for a touch of luxury rather than more traditional laminate worktops. Marble often proves to be prohibitively expensive, so more affordable quartz has become an increasingly popular choice. This rise in popularity has…

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Effectively Monitor & Manage Exposure to Dust

May 6, 2025

Adequately monitoring and managing your workers’ exposure to risk from dangerous dust poses a set of challenges that are unique from other workplace risks. In contrast to noise, for example, which a person will be able to hear if it’s loud enough to potentially harm their hearing, dust isn’t always visible to the naked eye. And dust, unlike…

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Controlling Belt Conveyor Dust at the Source

May 6, 2025

By: R. Todd Swinderman, Contributor Staying compliant with the U.S.’s recent Mining Safety and Health Administration’s (MSHA) new dust emissions final rule can be accomplished with some simple, make-sense solutions. Often, these rule changes cause a ripple effect internationally and serve as a template for similar policies worldwide. Many engineers have dedicated years to reducing…

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Cutting Through the Dust: Silica Monitoring in High-Risk Industries

November 23, 2024

By: Tim Turney, Contributor Dust can be a deadly byproduct of working with materials that contain silica. Materials such as sand, soil, concrete, granite and quartz contain silica that can be released into the air when crushed, drilled, sanded or otherwise disturbed. When the dust particles are small enough to be inhaled deep into the…

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Protect Workers’ Health with Dust & Fume Control

November 23, 2024

By: Divine Duruobioma, MSc, CMIOSH, Contributor Dust and fumes in the workplace may pose significant health and safety risks. For instance, welding fumes containing metals like aluminum and lead can cause acute symptoms, such as nausea and/or long-term health problems (i.e., lung cancer). Dust hazards vary by particle size; smaller particles, like respirable crystalline silica,…

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NFPA 660: Consolidated Combustible Dust Standards

July 30, 2024

“Pneumatic vacuums play a critical role in maintaining compliance with combustible dust (comdust) regulations. The HafcoVac uses compressed air instead of electrical components, eliminating potential ignition sources and aligning with safety standards set by organizations like OSHA and NFPA. By effectively capturing and containing dust utilizing HEPA Filtration, the HafcoVac prevents dust accumulation and dispersion,…

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Best Practice When Air Sampling for Silica: The Deadly Dust

July 30, 2024

By: Tim Turney, Contributor Silica dust is a scourge on industrial working environments that can be a deadly presence if not controlled appropriately. Silica is abundant as a constituent part of many of the organic materials found in construction, mining, quarrying and manufacturing worksites; and it is found naturally formed as quartz. Recently, silica dust…

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Introducing the Gold Series Timer (GST): Revolutionizing Industrial Dust Collection Systems

March 5, 2024

Today, Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC) proudly unveils its latest dust collection controller, the Gold Series Timer (GST). This is a user-friendly and easily applied solution for pulse-jet cleaning control of industrial dust collection systems including baghouse designs. The GST stands out with its pulse output modules, which are seamlessly expandable to accommodate various solenoid…

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Dust, Fumes & Dangerous Gasses

November 21, 2023

How personal air sampling pumps can protect employees from unseen dangers By: Tim Turney, Contributor Many industrial workers are exposed to some amount of potentially hazardous dust, fumes, gasses or vapors every day at their place of work. The latest statistics by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) found that in 2021, 551 fatalities were…

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FAQs: How Can Dust from Manufacturing Packaging Materials Harm Workers

November 21, 2023

Editor’s Note: The following article first ran in IHW’s sister publication, Packaging Technology Today, in 2023. For the original article, go to https://tinyurl.com/bdbkb6f8 . What’s so dangerous about dust? Put simply, dust is the largest contributor to poor indoor air quality (IAQ), and poor IAQ leads to health problems and combustible dust incidents. Airborne metal,…

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