If I work with silica dust, can I expose family or friends?

If I work with silica dust, can I expose family or friends?

Roy Artal (Pulmonologist and Critical Care Physician) gives expert video advice on: Am I at risk for breathing silica dust?; What are the symptoms of silicosis?; If I work with silica dust, can I expose family or friends? and more...

Somebody that does work with silica dust definitely has the potential to expose their family and friends to the silica dust, and that's why it's important that you wear protective clothes and garments that you can shed when you leave the workplace, because if you don't wear protective clothing and protective gear your clothes that you're going to bring home with you and wear home with you can become impregnanted with this dust and with this material. People who are around you, children that might hug you, or somebody that might be doing your laundry has the potential to be exposed to this dust. It's been very well documented with asbestos that, particularly in England in the 1800's where asbestos was very heavily used, the wives and daughters of people who were cleaning the clothes of asbestos workers actually developed asbestos-related lung disease themselves even though they never actually handled the material themsleves, only the clothes of the people who were woking with asbestos.