Rant: The OSHA silica dust exposure limit is way lower than I ever guessed

I was reading a safety bulletin from a supply house in Phoenix and saw the legal limit is 50 micrograms per cubic meter over an 8-hour shift. That's basically a few grains of sand in a whole room. Makes me rethink how careful we need to be with just a basic dust mask. Anyone else actually measure their on-site dust levels?

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jade_lane1d ago

Wow, that's wild. It's like how they keep finding "safe" levels for stuff are way too high. Makes you wonder what else we're breathing in, right?

anna17720h ago

Seriously, they just keep moving the goalposts.