Screen New South Wales engineered-stone exposure for Dust Diseases Care and the Tribunal
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Record the product, the work and the dates, and set them beside the SIRA eligibility points and the Monday silica list. Do not treat the model ban as the New South Wales regulation.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer confirms the New South Wales regulation. The SIRA sentence was written as looking forward.
- Use the Monday Directions List for a silica claim, not a silicosis list.
- Do not treat health monitoring on the SIRA page as a compensation entitlement.
- Do not mark re-installation as allowed. It stays with the regulator.
Rules that apply
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The work product
Forum. Dust Diseases Care and the Dust Diseases Tribunal, for engineered-stone silica disease
Produce. A fact sheet of the exposure, the compensation path and the unopened state ban text.
Have ready. Product and work; Dates; State of employment; Diagnosis.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: A worker cut engineered-stone slabs in New South Wales and now has silicosis. The tool marks Dust Diseases Care and a Monday Directions List claim, and marks the New South Wales ban text as not opened. The lawyer confirms the regulation before anyone calls the work prohibited under a named clause.
Stop and hand it back when
- The SIRA sentence is treated as the text of the regulation.
- The claim is placed in a silicosis list.
- The tool decides that an offence was committed.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Record the product, the work and the dates, and set them beside the SIRA eligibility points and the Monday silica list. Do not treat the model ban as the New South Wales regulation. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- The Safe Work Australia page says the ban has been in place since 1 July 2024 and that implementation may vary. SIRA's opened text said use, supply and manufacture of all engineered stone will be prohibited from 1 July 2024.
- SIRA says health monitoring for silica-exposed workers is mandatory under Schedule 14, Table 1 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017, covering history, exposure records, a respiratory questionnaire, a respiratory function test and a full-size PA chest X-ray, at the employer's cost. That regulation was not opened.
- Dust Diseases Care eligibility is still a covered diagnosis, exposure while employed in New South Wales, and reasonable attribution to inhalation of dust.
- From 3 February 2025 a silicosis or other silica claim is listed in the Monday Directions List at 10am within six weeks of filing. There is no silicosis list.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product identification letter for an asbestos or engineered-stone claim | Letter | AI use Yellow | A letter asking an employer, occupier, supplier or manufacturer to identify an asbestos product or an engineered-stone benchtop, panel or slab from its records. |
| Request to preserve employment, product and insurance records in a dust claim | Letter | AI use Yellow | A request that an employer, occupier, supplier or manufacturer keep employment, site, product and workers compensation insurance records while a dust claim is investigated. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.
Sources
- Safe Work Australia: engineered stone ban · 2026-10-23
- SIRA insurer guidance GN 10.1 Dust diseases · 2026-10-23
- Advice to Practitioners No. 3 of 2024: Silicosis List abandoned · 2026-10-23
The national page requires notification and controlled processing for permitted legacy work, with a stated Victorian exception that is not a New South Wales exception.
The Dust Diseases Tribunal practice-notes index opened on 23 October 2026 has no generative AI note. Do not treat a Supreme Court note as the Tribunal rule. Do not enter confidential information into a public tool.
From 1 January 2025, imports are prohibited under regulation 5M of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956.