Work health and safety regulators
Work health and safety regulators manage the laws about work health and safety for your state or territory. Find information on silica for your state or territory here.
Safe Work Australia
We work with state and territory authorities to improve work health and safety and workers’ compensation for all workers in Australia.
Workers' compensation authorities
The Commonwealth, states and territories manage workers’ compensation arrangements. Find information about your workers’ compensation authority.
Be Silica Smart campaign kit
Use these resources in your workplace to raise awareness about silica risks:
Posters
- Poster – Be Silica Smart – general
- Poster – Be Silica Smart – worker
- Poster – How silica dust is produced at work
- Poster – Information available in other languages
Email assets
- Mailout banner – Be Silica Smart (red)
- Mailout banner – Be Silica Smart (blue)
- Signature block – Be Silica Smart
Social media assets
- Social media tile – Be Silica Smart hero (red)
- Social media tile – Be Silica Smart hero (blue)
- Social media tile – Be Silica Smart hero (worker)
Model Code of Practice
Fact sheets and infographics
- What is silica dust?
- How silica dust is produced
- Processing of a crystalline silica substance: Risk management process
- Controlling the risks from silica dust
- Identifying and assessing the risks from silica dust in the workplace
- Work producing silica dust that is assessed as high risk
- Completing a silica risk control plan
The Asbestos and Silica Safety and Eradication Agency
More information
- Learn about silica
- Silica resources
- Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of respirable crystalline silica in the workplace
- Airborne contaminants hub
- Asbestos and Silica Safety and Eradication Agency – Silica safety (external website)
Contact your work health and safety regulator for advice or for information about laws in your jurisdiction.
Information on silica for your state or territory
Find work health and safety information about silica dust for your state or territory.