---
title: "Product identification letter for an asbestos or engineered-stone claim"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/product-identification-letter-asbestos-stone"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a21-product-identification-letter-asbestos-stone"
area_id: "A21"
kind: "letter"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A21-DD20261023-2", "A21-DD20261023-13", "A21-T1-R12"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23"
---

# Product identification letter for an asbestos or engineered-stone claim

> 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.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/product-identification-letter-asbestos-stone  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-23

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
- Practice area: [Personal Injury & Compensation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation.md)
- Jurisdictions: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-23
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-23 against the 2 authorities it cites, for New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.

## When to use it

Use when the dust claim depends on which product was on a site, or who supplied it. The recipient is an employer, an occupier, a supplier or a manufacturer. The letter asks for identification. It does not allege a breach of a state work-health regulation.

## Used for these tasks

- [Build an exposure and employer history for a dust claim](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/build-an-exposure-and-employer-history-for-a-dust-claim.md)
- [Screen an engineered-stone exposure against the prohibition and the compensation path](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/screen-an-engineered-stone-exposure-against-the-prohibition-and-the-comp.md)
- [Prepare an occupational-disease or dust-disease file chronology and issues list](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-an-occupational-disease-or-dust-disease-file-chronology-and-issu.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may prepare the identification request from the sites and years the lawyer has accepted, and the lawyer checks the product description before it is sent.

**AI may:**

- Ask the recipient to identify the product, the supplier and the years from its own records
- Set out Safe Work Australia's published definition of engineered stone, and say the state regulation was not quoted
- Ask the recipient to preserve labels, invoices and safety data sheets

**AI must not:**

- Must not allege that the recipient committed an offence under a state regulation
- Must not state a date on which asbestos was banned
- Must not direct anyone to cut, process or sample stone
- Must not treat Safe Work Australia's page as the text of the New South Wales, Victorian or Queensland regulation

**The lawyer checks:**

- The local work-health regulation is read before any breach is alleged. Safe Work Australia says implementation may vary
- The product is described only as far as the instructions and the records go. A trade name is not invented
- A sample, if one exists, is preserved. The letter does not tell the recipient to process engineered stone
- The letter is not the Dust Diseases Tribunal asbestos lodgment form

## Authorities

- [Safe Work Australia, Engineered stone ban (1 July 2024 model-regulation ban on benchtops, panels and slabs; definition; legacy stone; import ban from 1 January 2025)](https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/safety-topic/hazards/silica/engineered-stone-ban)
- [icare Dust Diseases Care, Who we care for (asbestos is the dust most often seen by that service; engineered-stone workshops are among the workplaces it names)](https://www.icare.nsw.gov.au/injured-or-ill-people/work-related-dust-disease/who-we-care-for)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/product-identification-letter-asbestos-stone and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*