Bill Presented

Silica Dust (Exposure) Bill

Presentation and First Reading (Standing Order No. 57)

Liz Jarvis presented a Bill to make provision about the prevention, monitoring and reporting of silicosis and other lung diseases caused by occupational exposure to silica dust; to make provision about a programme of screening for silicosis; to introduce certain requirements and prohibitions on working practices associated with exposure to silica dust, including a prohibition on the dry cutting of high silica engineered stone; to make provision about the role of the Health and Safety Executive in relation to occupational exposure to silica dust; and for connected purposes.

Bill read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday 17 April, and to be printed (Bill 406).