TY - JOUR T1 - Public health, worker safety advocates welcome new federal silica standard JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 13 LP - 13 VL - 46 IS - 5 AU - Kim Krisberg Y1 - 2016/07/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/46/5/13.2.abstract N2 - Following decades of mounting evidence on the dangers of silica dust, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration officially adopted a new silica exposure rule expected to save more than 600 lives every year and prevent 900 new cases of the incurable lung disease silicosis. ER -