
Type
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Version:
2024.
(Current)
Short Description
The ban only applies to engineered stone: benchtops AND panels AND slabs.

Type
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Version:
2024.
(Current)
Short Description
Key terms used in Engineered stone prohibition.

Type
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Version:
2024.
(Current)
Short Description
This form must be completed by a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) and sent to [insert WHS Regulator] before carrying out, or directing or allowing a worker to carry out, any work that involves processing of legacy engineered stone.

Type
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Version:
2024.
(Current)
Short Description
Handy information sheet grouping Safe Work Australia documents and state-specific WHS regulators.

Type
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Version:
2024.
(Current)
Short Description
From 1 July 2024, a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) must not carry out, or direct or allow a worker to carry out, work that involves the manufacture, supply, processing, or installation of engineered stone benchtops, panels, and slabs.

Type
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Version:
2024.
(Current)
Short Description
A work health and safety (WHS) regulator can exempt a type of engineered stone from the ban.

Type
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Publisher
Safe Work Australia
Version:
2024.
(Current)
Short Description
Flowchart explains the exemption from engineered stone ban process.

Type
Publisher
WorkSafe Victoria
Publisher
WorkSafe Victoria
Version:
2022.
(Current)
Short Description
How and when to prepare and use a crystalline silica hazard control statement (hazard control statement) for high risk crystalline silica work (HRCSW).

Type
Publisher
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
Publisher
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
Version:
2020.
(Current)
Short Description
The national workplace exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica has been halved from an eight hour time-weighted average airborne concentration of 0.1 milligrams per cubic metre (mg/m3) to 0.05 mg/m3; this new workplace exposure standard takes effect in Queensland from 1 July 2020.

Type
Publisher
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
Publisher
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
Version:
2019.
(Current)
Short Description
Silicosis is preventable by using proper controls to eliminate or minimise expo sure to respirable crystalline silica dust in the workplace.