Quartz powder is manufactured by using sedimen-tary rock as a raw material in small-scale industry. There are 65 registered small-scale manufacturing enterprises employing about 650 workers located in and around Jaipur, Ajmer and Beawer in Rajasthan State, India. In each unit, five to ten workers are employed, of which 60 to 90% are women. On aver- age, each enterprise produces 4 to 6 tonnes of ?n- ished products per day.
A few more manufacturing enterprises are likely to arise in the near future due to the abundance of the natural resourceDsedimen- tary rockDin a large number of locations in the State. Sedimentary rock containing a high percen- tage of free silica is required for the manufacture of quartz powder, which goes down in size to ˉour-like fine powder, known as `remming mass’, which is uti- lised as a basic raw material in manufacturing in- duction furnace linings, ceramics, refractories and porcelain articles. Because of the high silica content and the high purity of the quartz powder, the country exports about 10% of this product.
The main processes and operations carried out are: stone crushing, grinding, sieving, screening, mixing, storing and bagging. The dust generated by each of these operations contains a very high amount of free silica, and exposure over a long period above the Permissible Limit of Exposure (Government of India, 1987) may lead to serious oc- cupational diseasesDsilicosis. Dust generated at the workplace also gets dispersed in the vicinity and causes health risk to the public and environment. Therefore, the present assessment of dust exposure and work environmental conditions has been carried out.
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