Health & Safety across the quarrying and quarry products industry

Quarries Partnership Team

Dust Initiative

To reduce the incidence of respiratory disease in workers within the quarrying industry by further raising awareness of the risks of exposure via inhalation, to hazardous dusts in the workplace.
To improve workers' knowledge concerning exposure to dust in the workplace
To share, promote and encourage good control practices in the workplace
To bring about a change in attitudes and behaviours to workplace 'dust'.