MSHA finally lowers asbestos limits
The Miniing Safety and Health Administration finally lowered the limit for exposure to 0.1 fibers per cubic centimeter. That’s a 95% reduction from the previous 2 fibers per cc limit. The new regulation goes into effect in late April.
Here is the “final rule” as published by the MSHA (22 pages, PDF). MSHA’s sister Labor Department agency, OSHA, has had a 0.1 fibers/cc limit for over a decade. This is the limit for most workers for a long time, but miners were for some reason stuck with more explicitly dirty air. This is an example of government failure - where the science, and even most of the work world, are ahead of the mining industry.
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