ASSP and the AGC have their First Joint Meeting in October 2018 on Air Sampling for the Silica Standard
Posted: Oct 25, 2018
By Renee Witherspoon, CSP, CIH, CHMM, Past President ASSP SPC

Deborah Dietrich, CIH, Senior VP, Sales and Marketing and Corporate Industrial Hygienist with SKC in Houston demonstrating pump calibration.
On October 16, members of the West Texas Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and the South Plains Chapter of the ASSP met at the Prosperity Bank Conference Center in Lubbock to learn more about OSHA’s new Silica Standard and air sampling.
Our special guest speaker was Debbie Dietrich, CIH, SKC Corporate Industrial Hygienist. Dan Kenner, SKC Corporate Technical Sales Representative was also present to answer questions regarding the equipment and assist with the hands on demonstration. Cassie Hughes with the West Texas Chapter of the AGC assisted in organizing the event.
Ms. Dietrich’s presentation concentrated on the air sampling aspect of the OSHA Final Rule on Respirable Crystalline Silica and how to properly evaluate silica levels to better control this hazard.
As a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), she stated that air sampling is “as easy as 1-2-3,” and explained that there are three critical components in air sampling – a pump, a calibrator, and a sampling device. For silica sampling this can be a cyclone with air sampling cassette or the new SKC Disposable Parallel Particle Impactor (PPI) Sampler. Read More