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Push for NZ to act on deadly silica dust: call for benchtops to be banned

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Engineered stone benchtops look great in modern homes but their installation in kitchens can have a deadly effect similar to asbestos. 

Wayne Scott, chief executive of MinEx — the national Health and Safety Council for New Zealand’s extractive sector — mining, quarrying, and tunnelling — is calling for the benchtops to be banned, as has happened in most of Australia because of t...


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