Exposure Control Plan (ECP)

The ECP is a document that sets out the plan the employer will implement to protect workers from hazardous exposure to RCS dust. The ECP co-ordinates and communicates what will be executed to address the RCS dust exposure risk for a particular silica process. A new ECP is required for each different kind of silica process identified as needed at the mine.

An ECP generated through the proper application of the Silica Control Tool^TM provides evidence that a compliant ECP has been prepared for the silica process. Various circumstances, however, including actual implementation of the ECP, change in any factors involved in the silica process, and appropriateness of the ECP to the silica process taking place at the mine, may warrant re-analysis through the Tool or the need for worksite sampling and testing.