Issues surrounding potentially deadly engineered stone products in Australia will be ongoing for multiple decades, according to the workplace relations minister. Following a meeting of workplace health and safety ministers, the national work safety watchdog is investigating a possible ban on silica products. Products with high silica levels, most commonly seen in kitchen benchtops, have…

Australian federal workplace ministers will ask state and federal ministers to accelerate the ban on the domestic use of silica due to the risks it carries of causing an incurable, progressive, and in many cases, fatal lung disease. Each year around 600,000 Australian workers are exposed to silica dust at work, according to the Australian…