OSHA's crystalline silica standards (1926.1153 for construction, 1910.1053 for general industry) establish action levels and permissible exposure limits that require systematic monitoring, engineering controls, medical surveillance, and written exposure control plans. MAC Safety's Silica Monitoring Programs provide the exposure assessment expertise and program infrastructure needed for silica standard compliance.
MAC's silica monitoring services include task-based exposure assessment, personal air sampling using NIOSH Method 7500/7602, engineering control effectiveness evaluation, and the written exposure control plan development required for tasks exceeding the action level. Monitoring strategies are designed to characterize exposure across the range of silica-generating activities in your operations — cutting, grinding, drilling, demolition, and material handling.
Silica monitoring data flows into the NIXN platform, triggering medical surveillance requirements when worker exposures exceed action levels, tracking respirator assignments, and maintaining the longitudinal exposure records that OSHA's silica standards require. NIXN's compliance tracking ensures that all elements of the silica standard — monitoring, controls, medical surveillance, training, and housekeeping — are managed as an integrated system.