EXCLUSIVE
Tradies left permanently incapacitated with silicosis have slammed the federal Government for taking so long to ban engineered stone products.
The Albanese Labor government will finally hold ‘initial discussions’ about a Safe Work Australia report considering whether potentially deadly engineered stone should be banned.
More than 600,000 workers across the nation have been exposed to respirable crystalline silica, which can lead to silicosis: a debilitating and incurable form of lung disease.
Unions and tradesmen impacted by the disease have