Exclusive: NSW to ban dry cutting of stone products to combat deadly silicosis | AnnaPattySMH
The NSW government will ban the dry cutting of artificial stone products used for kitchen benchtops in response to an emerging epidemic of deadly silica dust diseases.
It is feared the booming popularity of artificial stone benchtops is leading to an increase in silicosis cases.NSW Minister for Better Regulation Kevin Anderson said a ban on all dry cutting that exposed workers to silica dust would be in place by July 1 and silicosis will become a notifiable disease with all cases to be listed on a single register.
Associate Professor Deborah Yates and colleagues from Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital and Wollongong Hospital have reported their findings of new cases and an emerging Australian epidemic of silicosis in theWorkers affected include a 45-year-old who died after being exposed to silica dust over 15 years of installing artificial stone kitchen benchtops and stonemasonry. Another has had a lung transplant because of severe silicosis.
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