Don’t let anyone tell you “it’s just a bit of nuisance dust”. In the lead-up to the British Lung Foundation's Breathe Easy Week, we're talking about "DUST".
Nuisance dust was a term coined by ACGIH to describe airborne materials (solids and liquids) which have ‘little’ harmful effect on the lungs and do not produce significant disease when exposures are kept under reasonable control.
However, in the UK alone, dust exposure at the workplace is responsible for more than 10,000 deaths a year.