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HSE warning over stonemasons and quarrying companies

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has warned quarrying companies and stonemasons of the risk that workers face of contracting the potentially fatal disease silicosis, if adequate measures to monitor and prevent exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) are not in place.

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