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Silicosis |
Domain: Health and safety at work => Diseases/accidents
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| Grammatical category: | Noun |
| Grammar notes: | Uncountable |
| Definition: | A type of pneumoconiosis caused by breathing in very fine dust particles containing crystalline silica (occupational exposure can occur in quarrying, mining, potteries, stone masonry, etc.). It is a debilitating scarring or fibrotic lung disease which continues to develop after exposure has stopped and is irreversible. |
| Definition source: | Jones 2003 adapted from Controlling Exposure to Stonemasonry Dust: Guidance for Employers, HSG201, 2001, HSE Books; and Respirable crystalline silica, EH59, 1997, HSE Books.
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| European legislation: | Directive 83/477/EEC |
| British legislation: | The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 |
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