CDC Publishes Industrial Minerals Dust Control Handbook

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) published a new edition of its handbook on dust control for industrial minerals mining and processing this March. 

The agency’s NIOSH Mining Program and the Industrial Minerals Association – North America (IMA-NA) partnered to produce the guide with the aim of reducing deaths, injuries, and illnesses. 

“Implementation of the engineering controls discussed can assist operators, health specialists, and workers in reaching the ultimate goal of eliminating pneumoconiosis and other occupational diseases caused by dust exposure in the mining industry,” NIOSH stated in a press release. 

The authors of the handbook discuss dust-generating processes and control strategies to reduce worker dust exposure during all stages of mineral processing, including screening, conveyance, bagging, loadout, and transport. 

NOISH said it hopes the handbook to “empower mineral industry personnel to apply state-of-the-art dust control technology to help reduce or eliminate mine and mill worker exposure to hazardous dust concentrations.”

To view the handbook, click here. 

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