National Silica Awareness

With the Silica National Strategic Plan approved in late November 2024 a silica awareness raising campaign was undertaken, comprising several discrete activities. This included a new website (silicasafety.gov.au), a number of speaking engagements and promotion activities at conferences and events and establishment of new stakeholder and industry committees and forums. 

These activities complimented the broader government awareness approach, which included grants to employers and employer groups and promotion of the new silica regulations and the ban of engineered stone