DUST AND NOISE: THERE ARE SOLUTIONS.

For over five years now, the U. S. textile makers have been making efforts to solve the problems of noise and cotton-dust abatement in order to meet the increasingly stringent levels established by regulatory agencies. This special report on textile mill environment describes how one plant achieved compliance with the OSHA cotton-dust standard. At present, the level of exposure to cotton dust for a cotton mill employee is set by OSHA at 1 mg/cu m as measured with an OSHA personal sampler.