Safe Work Australia has published the Decision Regulation Impact Statement: Prohibition on the use of engineered stone (Decision RIS). Read the Decision RIS and questions and answers to learn more.
Work health and safety regulators
Work health and safety regulators manage the laws about work health and safety for your state or territory. Find information on silica for your state or territory here.
Information for your state or territory
Go to work health and safety information for silica dust in your state or territory.
- WorkSafe Tasmania – Silica safe
- WorkSafe Tasmania - Preventing exposure to silica from engineered stone benchtops
- WorkSafe Tasmania – Beware of workplace dust exposure
- WorkSafe Tasmania - Code of Practice: Managing the risks of respirable crystalline silica from engineered stone in the workplace
- WorkSafe Tasmania – Silica Awareness Campaign Kit 2019
- WorkSafe Tasmania – Abrasive blasting
- Respirable crystalline silica | WorkSafe.qld.gov.au
- Silicosis | WorkSafe.qld.gov.au
- Construction dust: respirable crystalline silica | WorkSafe.qld.gov.au
Stone benchtop fabrication and installation
- Respirable crystalline silica in the stone benchtop industry | WorkSafe.qld.gov.au
- Respirable crystalline silica audit campaign report: Stage 3 | WorkSafe.qld.gov.au
Construction work and manufacturing
Other Queensland Government links
Victoria is not harmonised with the model laws. Instead, their statutory rule is under Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017
Safe Work Australia
We work with state and territory authorities to improve work health and safety and workers’ compensation for all workers in Australia.
Workers' compensation authorities
The Commonwealth, states and territories manage workers’ compensation arrangements. Find information about your workers’ compensation authority.
Supporting links
- Crystalline silica and silicosis page on the Safe Work Australia website.
- Working with silica and silica containing products guidance material.
- model Code of Practice: Managing the risks of respirable crystalline silica from engineered stone in the workplace.
Contact your work health and safety regulator for advice or for information about laws in your jurisdiction.