With a variety of new equipment and innovations as a backdrop, members of the Silica/Asphalt Milling Machine Partnership were recognized during World of Asphalt 2015. The ceremony last week marked the ...

New guidelines represent 10 years of collaborative research, study, and discussion between federal worker-safety agencies, national trade associations, labor unions, and milling equipment ...

While the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration plans to revamp its outdated silica-dust standard, a voluntary partnership of asphalt-paving groups is closing in on recommended methods to ...

A new document from NIOSH and the Silica/Asphalt Milling Machine Partnership contains best practices for equipment manufacturers, equipment owners, and highway contractors for preventing workers’ ...

Gary Fore, a now retired vice president of the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), Lanham, Md., leads a voluntary partnership of asphalt-paving industry organizations that is researching and ...

*Hourly rate represents the monthly ownership costs divided by 176, plus operating cost. Unit prices used in this calculation: diesel fuel, $3.98/gal; mechanic's wage, $51.24/hour; and money costs at ...