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The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), a leading scientific charity and the Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection, is highlighting the need for real and immediate action to end illnesses and deaths from cancer-causing silica dust. In its response to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Respiratory Health inquiry on the risks of Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS), it calls for better controls in the prevention of silicosis, an often-fatal lung condition which continues to undermine the respiratory health of hundreds of UK workers exposed to silica dust risks at their workplace.