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Silicosis
Domain: Health and safety at work => Diseases/accidents
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.
European legislation
Directive 83/477/EEC
British legislation
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
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