Half-Day Training

Program Overview

Silicosis is not a disease of the past. It is a growing occupational health crisis affecting stone benchtop fabricators, tunnel workers, sandblasters, and quarry workers - young workers in their twenties and thirties who are developing terminal lung disease because their employers failed to control respirable crystalline silica dust. Similar tragedies play out with coal dust and black lung disease, wood dust and nasal cancer, and hard metal dust and occupational asthma. Dust-related occupational diseases collectively kill more workers globally than any other category of occupational illness.
The tragedy is that these diseases are entirely preventable. The exposure standards and control technologies exist. What is often missing is the knowledge - among employers, supervisors, and workers - of which dusts are truly dangerous, how to assess whether exposures exceed regulatory limits, and how to implement controls that are effective in the real-world conditions of a working site or plant. ICLM's Dust Hazards and Control Training provides exactly that knowledge - practical, evidence-based, and regulation-aligned - to the people who need it most.

This training is distinct from our Combustible Dust program, which focuses on fire and explosion risks. Dust Hazards and Control addresses the health risks of occupational dust exposure - respiratory disease, lung cancer, occupational asthma, and systemic toxicity - and the industrial hygiene strategies required to prevent workers from inhaling harmful concentrations of hazardous dust particles in their daily working environment.