A major construction company and SafeWork discussed strategies to protect tunnel workers from deadly airborne hazards five ...

Guatemalan immigrant Dennys René Rivas Williams was diagnosed with a terminal lung disease, yet he managed to hold onto life.

“The doctor called me and said, ‘Dennys, I have to tell you something, you have two years to live,’” recalls Dennys René ...

When stonemasons are cutting and grinding materials, the carcinogen respirable crystalline silica dust (RCS) is created. Silica is naturally occurring in stones such as granite, porcelain and ...

A 32-year-old is among 13 Sydney workers who have been diagnosed with silicosis, as the union slams the state's workplace ...

Background High-level exposure to crystalline silica dust is the key factor in silicosis. Long-term exposure to low-level silica dust, for example, lower than that in occupational exposure limits, ...

and cutting or crushing stone result in worker exposures to respirable crystalline silica dust. Industrial sand used in certain operations, such as foundry work and hydraulic fracturing (fracking), is ...

There are many types of activities that produce crystalline silica dust which could result in worker exposure to respirable crystalline silica; including but not limited to, the following: Industrial ...

Silicosis, resulting from prolonged exposure to free crystalline silica dust, is an occupational disease characterized by silica nodules and extensive lung tissue fibrosis. The etiology of silicosis ...

Beneath our city, a maze of tunnels is under construction. More must be done to keep Sydney’s tunnelling workers safe.

Engineered stone has been banned by the State Government. Victorian stonemasons and construction industries are adapting to ...

Crystalline silica can cause a range of deadly ... used in the tunnelling projects exposed workers to levels of silica dust far greater than engineered stone kitchen benchtops, which are now ...