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Read Time: 2 Minutes If you cut or polish an engineered stone counter, you work with a product that looks clean and safe. It installs well, resists stains, and comes in many colors. It also hides a real hazard. Most engineered stone has 90 to 97 percent crystalline…

Read Time: 2 Minutes If you’ve ever stood behind a crew cutting through concrete, you know the scene—concrete saws kick up clouds of dust that hang in the air long after the blade stops spinning. What’s harder to see is what’s inside that dust: microscopic particles…

Read Time: 2 Minutes If you work with engineered stone, you have probably heard the phrase “silica safety” more in the last two years than in the decade before. Australia has rewritten the playbook by banning the manufacture, supply, processing, and installation of…

When most people picture a teardown, they see heavy machines ripping through concrete with dust plumes billowing sky-high (or, if you grew up in the 2010s, Miley Cyrus on a wrecking ball). Real demolition safety looks nothing like that. Around the world, contractors…

Read Time: 2 Minutes If you’re here to ask how much silica dust causes silicosis, the honest answer is: there isn’t a single number. Contracting silicosis is dependent on how fine the dust is, how long and how intensely someone is exposed, what material you’re…

Read Time: 2 Minutes Silica dust is invisible at the levels that harm you most, which is why the first rule to prevent silicosis is to stop guessing. If you cut, grind, drill, or sweep concrete, stone, or sand, respirable crystalline silica is in the air, and inside…