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South Australia has threatened to go it alone if engineered stone is not banned nationwide by the end of the year.Safe Work Australia last month recommended a ban on the use of engineered stone products to prevent workers from developing…

“To deter Australian regulators from banning artificial stone, Caesarstone mounted a desperate advertising campaign in October 2023,” the court document says.Brayton Purcell partner James Nevin said “every word” in the ad was misleading,…

Independent Hardware Group, which includes Mitre 10, has become the latest business to sever ties with potentially deadly engineered stone products.IHG – which also includes Home Hardware, Total Tools and Hardings – will remove all…

A scathing report out of Congress sheds light on new details about a convicted criminal from China who ran an unlicensed lab in California stockpiling dangerous pathogens. The 43-page report was produced by a Republican-controlled House…

A range of trendy kitchen benchtops will be pulled from Bunnings shelves in the wake of a damning report about the products links to a fatal disease.The hardware chain will stop selling engineered stone by December 31 following a Safe…

NSW Industrial Relations Minister Sophie Cotsis has confirmed the government will consider a statewide ban on a cancer-causing engineered stone if no consensus is reached on a national level at an upcoming meeting.This comes as a recent…

Ikea has been accused of “hypocrisy” amid a call for the furniture giant to pull a range of kitchen benchtops due to its links to a fatal disease. A letter sent to Australian chief executive Mirja Viinanen detailed the national…

Safe Work Australia has called for a total ban on engineered stone, as tradies die with horrific illnesses caused by cutting the product — but the government says it won’t make any changes until it decides on a “national response”.…

In an era when workplace health and safety is as Australian as Vegemite, it is strange how some industries still harbour a death wish for their workers.More than eight months have passed since the Herald exposed the true scale of the…

Thousands of CFMEU workers marched through central Sydney on Thursday morning, calling for a ban on dangerous engineered stone that union leaders have labelled a “death sentence” for thousands of stonemasons. The unionists walked off the…