Silicosis - Oldest Occupational Disease

Silicosis is an ancient job-related lung disease affecting construction workers and miners who come in contact with silica dust. But in recent decades, it also has been affecting younger workers who fabricate artificial stone, which is used for countertops and has a high silica concentration.

The Victorian Government has announced it will continue investing in a life-saving clinic for workers at risk of silicosis.

The state government said its partnership with WorkSafe and The Alfred Hospital will be extended for another three years.

Suhail Khan Srinagar: For the last 14 years, walking sticks have been the best friends of 55-year-old Nazir Ahmad Malla. The traumatic memories of the day he lost both legs are still fresh in his mind.

Budhpura in Rajasthan state is the epicenter of India's sandstone industry. Many men here have died of the lung disease silicosis, and life has become tough for their families.

Even as locals suffer from diseases, no strict action has been taken against mine operators for flouting norms.

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Between 2018 and January 19, 2023, the state registered 48,448 silicosis cases.

The dangers of incurable lung disease silicosis are driving Global Road Technology to advocate for higher worksite safety standards.

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A lesser known, hardly recognized, and often overlooked early stage of the deadly silicosis called the “subradiological silicosis” or invisible silic...

Mine workers in Rajasthan are perhaps the most vulnerable among manual workers in India’s unorganised sector. They are exposed to various kinds of dust, which makes them very susceptible to developing severe occupational lung diseases, including silicosis.

In Jharkhand's ramming mass industry, workers mainly from the tribal belts or migrants sooner or later fall prey to silicosis and eventually succumb to it.

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Despite an official policy concerning silicosis, the patients continue to suffer due to its poor implementation.

Poorly regulated and unsafe mines are killing thousands of men.Their wives are left to pick up the pieces: ‘We work to kill ourselves’...

The Rajasthan Silicosis Policy was announced in 2019 and states that migrant workers from neighboring states who are diagnosed with silicosis will be...

The Australian construction union is instructing workers to down tools if engineered stone benchtops used in kitchens are not banned by the federal go...

Mining of bauxite and other minerals is bringing untimely death, illness, displacement and unemployment to the tribals of Jharkhand.

Forty-eight years after the mines were closed and after over two decades of running around in courts, the families of the deceased workers of the qua...