All 13, one just 32 years old, worked on the first stage of the M6 tunnel between Arncliffe and Kogarah, starting in late ...

A new medical review published in the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology has uncovered a troubling rise in ...

"This is a nasty disease. Unlike asbestosis which often takes decades to emerge, silicosis can quite rapidly stop healthy ...

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, ...

SafeWork NSW will maintain and reinforce dedicated resources to monitor tunnelling and silica respirable crystalline silica dust results to enable optimal work health and safety. It will also develop ...

Enhanced compliance SafeWork NSW will maintain and reinforce dedicated resources to monitor tunnelling and silica respirable crystalline silica dust results to enable optimal work health and safety.

"It's entirely foreseeable that if you're tunnelling through sandstone, you're going to get silica in air and it's going to be respirable and it's going to eventually cause silicosis and death ...

SafeWork NSW will maintain and reinforce dedicated resources to monitor tunnelling and silica respirable crystalline silica dust results to enable optimal work health and safety. It will also develop ...