Submitted by Elly Simmons on Thursday 7th November 2024
Published on Wednesday 27th November 2024
Current status: Open
Open until: Tuesday 27th May 2025
Current Signatures: 20
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
Australia ~ BANNED ~ Confident ~ Dust ~ Government ~ Health and Safety ~ market ~ measures ~ place ~ risk ~ Safety ~ safety measures ~ Sale ~ Stones ~ Teams ~ UK ~ UK Government
Ban High-Silica Engineered Stone Worktops.
We want high-silica engineered stone worktops banned due to the risk of silicosis resulting from silica dust particles. This stone is a common product in the market in the UK. Engineered stone is banned in Australia.
Silica is naturally occurring in stone however some say engineered worktops can be 97% silica. While some UK stonemasons may be confident that they have the strongest health and safety measures in place to protect their team, we believe the risk of this material is not necessary when there are alternatives on the market.
Engineered stone is a large market in the UK and we urge the UK government to ban the sale of this product.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
18.118.149.55 Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:28:23 +0000