The unanimous decision was made after Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke urged his state counterparts to bring forward a decision on whether to ban the domestic use of the dangerous product used for kitchen benchtops as pressure to act mounts.
States and territories have agreed to consider banning engineered stone to prevent more Australian stonemasons and tradespeople from contracting deadly silicosis following a meeting led by Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke on Tuesday.on whether to ban the domestic use of the dangerous product used for kitchen benchtops as pressure mounts from federal Labor MPs, unions and health experts to act.
Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke: “I wish governments had started this process sooner.”“I’m pleased to say we have ended up with a unanimous decision across every state, territory and [the] Commonwealth,” Burke said after the meeting. “We have now tasked Safe Work Australia to do the work to scope out what regulation is required for all workplaces where you deal with silica dust and to also scope out specifically ... what a ban would look like.Burke had earlier said he was not willing to wait until a previously issued deadline of July 2024 to begin discussing banning high-silica content stone products, which is behind a spike in workers suffering lung disease.
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