Silica exposure occurs in construction-related industries such as quarrying, tunneling, civil construction, stonemasonry, cement manufacturing, concrete product fabrication, building demolition, high-rise concrete construction, brick and tile manufacturing, concrete recycling, bench top manufacture and paving. The toxic dust has been dubbed “the new asbestos”, and a 2017 Queensland Parliamentary inquiry into Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis (Black Lung) …
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