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RACP Submission - Work with engineered stone and materials containing crystalline silica

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RACP Submission - Work with engineered stone and materials containing crystalline silica, crystalline silica Poutūterangi | March 2025 The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Submission, crystalline silica. The RACP works across more than 40 medical specialties to educate, innovate and advocate, caused by airborne respirable crystalline silica (RCS) becoming trapped in the lungs causing, are suffering from silicosis or other silica dust related diseases 3 . Government (regulators, engineered stone in the past 15 years will develop silica-related diseases. Aotearoa NZ needs to learn

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Improved understanding of the epidemic hitting Australia Respirable Crystalline Silica • What, years 5 6 Normal 2018 2017 2015 With thanks to Dr R Hoy 7 Silica (SiO 2 ) Silica is a generic term for • crystalline silicates – mainly quartz = white sand • It is a naturally occurring mineral which makes up 59% of the mass of the earth’s crust • Not amorphous silicates (asbestos) 8 Respirable Crystalline Silica exposure Typical industries include: • tunnelling • foundries

National Dust Disease Taskforce - Final Report June 2021

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in occupational settings are difficult: silica and silicates are widely used in a large number of industrial, to other silica or silicates) using TOOCS 2.1. 7. The workers’ compensation claims are coded using, crystalline silica generated when manipulating - cutting, grinding and polishing - material containing silica such as engineered stone. The re-emergence of silicosis has been mostly driven, workers in industries that generate hazardous dust such as silica, with an immediate focus

Accelerated Silicosis FAQs

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a high proportion of crystalline silica. Artificial stone is used to make kitchen, bathroom, of the lungs caused by the inhalation and deposition of respirable crystalline silica in the lung tissue. It falls into the group of diseases known as pneumoconioses. Silica exposure has been a well, on the time taken to accumulate a Total Lung Burden of crystalline silica sufficient to trigger a nodular, of silicosis is also dependent on the concentration and the surface texture of the crystalline silica

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of silica exposure Respiratory hazards Coal mine dust (CMD) is a complex mixture containing: ◦ Coal ◦ SilicaSilicates such as mica and kaolin ◦ Metals such as cadmium and lead ◦ Volatile organic
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