DIP Ep 657: OMBRS 3-The OSHA Silica Standard

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All right, welcome. My name is Divine. Uh, this is episode six hundred and fifty-seven of the, of the Divine Intervention Podcast. And today's podcast, uh, we're gonna be continuing the series, uh, on our occupational medicine board review. And again, you know, we've done the OSHALED standard, OSHA, um, asbestos standard. Those are pretty high yield. And we're gonna do another pretty high yield standard called the OSHA crystalline silica standard, right? Um, so again, I'm gonna talk about a lot of things that I think are very important to know for your, for your exams, right? So let's just jump, kinda jump right into it, right? So, um, again, we're gonna focus on the OSHA crystalline silica standard, right? Uh, they love to test this on the exams. It's on the Occ Med exam blueprint. You gotta know this stuff, right? Um, they love to test this. It's a very common hazardous exposure. It's a very common occupational lung disease. So if you're sitting for the boards, you wanna make sure you know this stuff and you know this code, right? So, uh, let's start with some context, right? So the thing is, crystalline silica is one of the most abundant minerals on Earth, right? You'll find it in quartz, you know, which makes up a pretty big chunk of the Earth's crust, right? You'll find it in cristobalite, in tridymite, right? And those are higher temperature forms of silica that you encounter in a lot of industrial processes, right? So the thing is, when you, uh, rock or concrete or brick or mortar, you know, is cut, is ground, is drilled, is blasted, it generates fine respirable silica particles, right? Those particles are the hazard, right? And the thing is, OSHA, they finalized their current silica standard in March of