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Dust & PPE Calculator
Estimate the silica risk of a task and the protection it needs.
Silica risk is a product of three things: how much crystalline silica the stone contains, whether the method makes respirable dust, and how long you are exposed. Granite cut dry for two hours is a fundamentally different proposition from soapstone worked wet for twenty minutes.
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relative silica risk for this task
Things to know
- This is an educational estimate, not a workplace exposure assessment.
- Wet methods can reduce airborne dust by roughly 90 % on most operations.
- A respirator does not make an unsafe method safe. Control the dust first.
