This Decision Regulation Impact Statement (Decision RIS) provides an analysis of the impact of a prohibition on the use of engineered stone under the model WHS laws.

This page provides information for PCBUs and workers about crystalline silica and some of the legal duties relating to protecting workers from exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS). 

The Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH) prepared this report, which: 

While the use of asbestos has been banned in Australia since 2003, in the past there was widespread use of asbestos in buildings. Construction and maintenance workers may be more likely to be involved in work that can disturb asbestos. 

This report, the first from the occupational skin disease database, can be considered a preliminary description of the working population and substances associated with occupational skin disease in Australia.