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political reporter Georgia Hitch

Safe Work Australia asked to look at regulations needed to ban engineered stone over silicosis risk

Tony Burke says it was a unanimous decision to ask Safe Work to look into banning engineered stone.

Federal Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke says he and his state and territory counterparts have asked Safe Work Australia to consider what a future ban on engineered stone would look like and that the group will make a decision on prohibiting it at a later stage.

The group of workplace health and safety ministers met on Tuesday to discuss whether to ban the stone because of the risk to people who work with it of developing silicosis.

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