Single sheet · $4

Silica: The Dust That Follows You Home

Name: Silica: The Dust That Follows You Home
Brand: ToolboxYear
Price: 4 USD
Availability: InStock

One toolbox talk, one page, ready to print. The sign-in sheet is on the same sheet as the talk, so the meeting and your training record are one piece of paper.

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.

Talk it through

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.
If the tool has a shroud and a vac port, use it. It's not optional trim.

3 more talking points are on the sheet.

Walk the job

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

Ask the crew

What are we cutting this week and how are we controlling the dust?
Is anybody working next to somebody else's dust?

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

What you get

The talk and the sign-in block on one page: date, job, led by, twelve signature lines.
US Letter, grayscale printer friendly, prints clean off a jobsite trailer printer.
Instant PDF download. One purchase covers your company.

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The whole year

All 52 weeks, one for every week of the year, ordered by season so the talk matches the weather. The Toolbox Year: 52 Toolbox Talks, $19.

Try one first, free

The heat talk is free, no email needed, no strings. Take it and run it Monday.

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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