According to WorkSafe, construction work has a big potential to produce silica dust that can cause serious lung disease and its removal from a worksite, or exposure control, is essential for worker safety.
Silica is a natural substance found in materials on construction sites, such as concrete, bricks, rocks, stone, sand and clay. Dust...
Christchurch’s raucous NIMBY (not in my backyard) voices are in full cry as Fulton Hogan battles for a long-designated new quarry site. HUGH DE LACY reports.
MIKE HIGGINS BLAMES the planners for the mounting supply problems in aggregate-rich Christchurch that are reflected in the bitter opposition to Fulton Hogan opening a new quarry...
The Aggregate and Quarry Association has fired a public relations salvo at Environment Canterbury’s (ECAN) proposal to bring in a ‘no tolerance’ ban on any dust beyond a quarry’s boundaries.
AQA chair Brian Roche says for ECAN to announce a ‘no tolerance’ approach to any dust of any kind beyond a quarry boundary beggars...
It can safely be assumed that exposure to silica dust does not pose a serious threat to underground and surface miners – it’s largely unique to the construction industry – because a study carried out nationwide in the mid-1990s allayed such fears. HUGH DE LACY explains.
Silica dust is carcinogenic, leading to lung diseases like...
