Safety Alert: Immediate action required for engineered stone benchtop workers

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Recent compliance audits of engineered stone benchtop manufacturers conducted by Workplace Health and Safety Queensland have found multiple instances of workers being exposed to RCS. As a result:

  • five prohibition notices were issued for activities involving exposure to workers, dry cutting, guarding and plant maintenance issues

  • twenty-three improvement notices were issued for health monitoring, fit testing of respiratory protective equipment and inadequate dust control issues.

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