HEALTH ALERT Mobile
Mining Operations & Equipment
Best Practices
• Control workplace environments to ensure compliance with the dust permissible exposure limits.
• Engineering controls reduce dust at its source.
- Dust collector systems
- Enclosures and booths
- Use water for dust suppression
• Sprays
• Water Trucks
- Environmental cabs
• Maintain equipment per manufacturer’s recommendations.
• Provide respiratory protection and ensure it is worn.
• Have a compliant respiratory protection program (RPP).