The largest and most comprehensive study to date of workers in the stone benchtop industry has found an “alarmingly high” prevalence of silicosis and that the mandated screening tests are failing to diagnose those with the disease, meaning that current estimates of the incidence of silicosis are likely wide of the mark.
The Monash University led study found that more than one quarter of people who had worked with artificial stone benchtops developed the preventable and potentially deadly disease, silicosis.
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