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Silica: The Dust That Follows You Home

Name: Silica: The Dust That Follows You Home · Bilingual Toolbox Talk (English + Spanish)
Brand: ToolboxYear
Price: 4 USD
Availability: InStock

Sílice: el polvo que se va a casa con usted

One talk, one page, both languages. English in the left column, español on the right, line for line, with one shared sign-in sheet at the bottom. You run one meeting and the whole crew signs the same record.

Cutting, grinding, and drilling concrete or masonry makes dust fine enough to reach the bottom of your lungs and stay there. Silicosis doesn't hurt today. It shows up years later, and it doesn't leave.

Cortar, esmerilar y taladrar concreto o bloque hace un polvo tan fino que llega hasta el fondo de los pulmones y ahí se queda. La silicosis no duele hoy. Aparece años después, y ya no se va.

Talk it through · La charla

Wet methods or vacuum attachments on saws, grinders, and drills in concrete and masonry. Dry cutting in a dust cloud is the old way, and the old way is why old-timers can't breathe.
Métodos húmedos o aspiradora conectada en sierras, esmeriles y taladros sobre concreto y bloque. Cortar en seco dentro de la nube de polvo es la manera vieja, y la manera vieja es la razón de que los viejos del oficio no puedan respirar.
If the tool has a shroud and a vac port, use it. It's not optional trim.
Si la herramienta tiene guarda con salida para aspiradora, úsela. No es adorno opcional.

3 more talking points are on the sheet, in both languages. 3 puntos más en la hoja, en los dos idiomas.

Walk the job · Recorra la obra

Find every concrete-cutting or grinding task planned this week and confirm the water or the vac is actually hooked up.

Encuentre cada tarea de corte o esmerilado de concreto planeada esta semana y confirme que el agua o la aspiradora de verdad estén conectadas.

Ask the crew · Pregunte a la cuadrilla

What are we cutting this week and how are we controlling the dust?
¿Qué vamos a cortar esta semana y cómo estamos controlando el polvo?
Is anybody working next to somebody else's dust?
¿Hay alguien trabajando dentro del polvo de otro?

Reference printed on the sheet: OSHA 1926.1153, respirable crystalline silica · OSHA 1926.1153, sílice cristalina respirable

What you get

The same talk in two matching columns, English left, español right, line for line.
One shared sign-in block: date, job, led by, twelve signature lines. One record for the whole crew.
Plain Latin American jobsite Spanish, usted form, with the real trade vocabulary. Not software-flat translation.
US Letter, grayscale printer friendly. Instant PDF download, one purchase covers your company.

Get this sheet on Etsy, $4 Or the whole bilingual book, $19

Prefer English only? The English single is here.

The whole year, both languages

All 52 weeks ordered by season, so the talk matches the weather. English and Spanish side by side on every page, one shared sign-in sheet. The Toolbox Year Bilingual Edition, $19.

Try one first, free

One talk goes free every week, English and Spanish on the same sheet, no email needed. This week's is here. En español aquí.

Training aid, not legal advice. It supports your company's safety program and current OSHA standards, it doesn't replace them. One purchase covers your company: print all your own crews need, on all your own jobs.

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