G/TBT/N/UGA/759  
 
3 October 2017  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member: UGANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [ X], 5.7.1 [  ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): 
Occupational safety. Industrial hygiene (ICS 13.100).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified d ocument: DUS 1814: 2017, 
Standard Practice for Health Requirements Relating to Occupational Exposure to Respirable 
Crystalline Silica. (26 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: This draft practice covers a description of several actions that 
should be taken to reduce the risk of harmful occupational exposures to humans in 
environments containing respirable crystalline silica.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of human health or saf ety 
8. Relevant documents:   
1. D4532  – Test Method for Respirable Dust in Workplace Atmospheres Using Cyclone 
Samplers  
2. ANSI/AIHA Z9.2  – Fundamentals Governing the Design and Operation of Local 
Exhaust Systems  
3. Z88.2  – American National Standard Practice for Respiratory Protection  
4. 29 CFR 1910.94  – Ventilation  
5. 29 CFR 1910.134  – Respiratory Protection  
6. 29 CFR 1910.1000  – Air Contaminants  
7. 29 CFR 1910.1200  – Hazard Communication  
8. 30 CFR 47  – Hazard Communication  
9. 30 CFR 56, Ti tle 30, Subpart D  – Air Quality, Radiation, and Physical Agents 
(MSHA)  
10. 42 CFR 84 Title 42, Part 84  – Approval of Respiratory Protective Devices, Tests for G/TBT/N/UGA/759  
 
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  Permissibility, Fees  
11. Manual of Analytical Methods  – 4th Ed., DHHS (NIOSH), Publication No. 94 -113, 
August 1994  
12. Method 7500  – for Silica, Crystalline, Respirable (XRD)  
13. Method 7601  – for Silica, Crystalline Visible Absorption Spectrophotometry  
14. Method 7602  – for Silica, Crystalline (IR)  
15. Method 7603  – for Coal  Mine Dust by IR  
16. 2000 – Guidelines for the Use of ILO International Classification of Radiographs of 
Pneumoconioses  
17. National Industrial Sand Association, Occupational Health Program for Exposure to 
Crystalline Silica in the Industrial Sand Industry, March 1997 
18. American Thoracic Society  – Standardization of Spirometry  
9. Proposed date of adoption: December 2017  
Proposed date of entry into force: Upon declaration as mandatory by the Minister for 
Trade, Industry and Cooperatives  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body: