15 years of monitoring occupational exposure to respirable dust and quartz within the European industrial minerals sector

In 2000, a prospective Dust Monitoring Program (DMP) was started in which measurements of worker’s exposure to respirable dust and quartz are collected in member companies from the European Industrial Minerals Association (IMA-Europe). After 15 years, the resulting IMA-DMP database allows a detailed overview of exposure levels of respirable dust and quartz over time within this industrial sector. Our aim is to describe the IMA-DMP and the...