Footnotes
[1] Submission
25, Additional information 10.11.05, p.4 (Mr R White et al for ASDC).
[2] Submission
25, Additional information 10.11.05, pp.4-5 (Mr R White et al for ASDC).
[3] Submission
32, pp.1-5 (Dust Diseases Board of NSW).
[4] O'Neill P & P Prince, Asbestos-related Claims (Management of Commonwealth Liabilities) Bill
2005 and Asbestos-related Claims (Management of Commonwealth Liabilities)
(Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2005, Bills Digest, nos
175-176, 2004-05, at www.aph.gov.au/Library/pubs/bd/2004-05/05bd175.htm
[5] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.2 (DEWR); see also Submission
11, p.2 (DEWR).
[6] Submission
11, pp.3-4 (DEWR).
[7] Submission
13, p.3 (CFMEU); NOHSC, Regulation Impact
Statement on the Proposed Amendments to the National Exposure Standards for
Crystalline Silica, October 2004, p.16.
[8] In 2005, NOHSC became the Australian Safety and
Compensation Council (ASCC).
[9] NOHSC Regulatory Impact Statement, pp.18-19.
[10] Submission
11, p.4 (DEWR).
[11] Submission
26, p.3 (WHS).
[12] Submission
13, p.2 (CFMEU); see also Submissions
14, Additional information, 2.12.05 (CCAA); 20, pp.8-9 (AIOH); 32, p.2 (Dust
Diseases Board of NSW).
[13] Submission
14, Additional information, 2.12.05, p.4 (CCAA).
[14] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.5 (CCAA).
[15] Submission
14, Additional information, 2.12.05, p.4 (CCAA).
[16] Submission
14, Additional information, 2.12.05, p.4 (CCAA).
[17] Submission
14, Additional information, 2.12.05, p.4 (CCAA).
[18] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.36 (Dr Faunce).
[19] Department of Health and Human Services, NIOSH Hazard Review: Health Effects of Occupational Exposure to
Crystalline Silica, Publication
No 2002-129, April 2002, www.cdc.gov/niosh/pdfs/02-129.pdf, p.v.
[20] de Klerk NH, Ambrosini GL, Pang SC and Musk AW,
'Silicosis Compensation in Western Australian Gold Miners Since the
Introduction of an Occupational Exposure Standard for Crystalline Silica', Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Vol 46, No 8, pp.687-692, 2002.
[21] Submission
26, p.3 (WHS).
[22] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, pp.40, 43 (Somersby Action Committee).
[23] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, pp.1, 4 (CCAA).
[24] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.17 (CCAA).
[25] Submission
1, p.2 (Whyalla Red Dust Action Group).
[26] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, pp.26, 28 (Prof EH Walters).
[27] Submission
3, p.2 (Prof EH Walters).
[28] Submission
3, p.3 (Prof EH Walters).
[29] Institute for Environment and Health, Review of Literature on chronic Bronchitis
and Emphysema and occupational Exposure, January 2005, p.4.
[30] NIOSH
Hazard Review, p.vi.
[31] Submission
3, p.3 (Prof EH Walters); see also Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, pp.29, 30 (Prof EH Walters).
[32] Submission
20, p.12 (AIOH).
[33] NOHSC, Regulatory Impact Statement, p.13.
[34] Submission
13, p.2 (CFMEU).
[35] NIOSH Hazard Review, p.v.
[36] NOHSC, Regulatory Impact Statement, p.14.
[37] Submission
20, p.10 (AIOH).
[38] Submission
20, p.12 (AIOH).
[39] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.22 (CFMEU).
[40] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.15 (MCA).
[41] Submission
14, Additional information, 2.12.05, p.5 (CCAA).
[42] Submission
14, Additional information, 2.12.05, p.5 (CCAA).
[43] Submission
26, pp.3-4 (WHS).
[44] Submission
26, p.7 (WHS).
[45] Dust Diseases Board, A Guide to Compensated Occupational Lung Disease in NSW, p.6.
[46] NOHSC Regulatory Impact Statement, p.13.
[47] NIOSH Hazard Review; see also Submission 26, p.5 (WHS).
[48] Submission
45, p.2 (Mr J Edwards).
[49] Newman LS, 'Toxic Beryllium: New Solutions for a
Chronic Problem', Environmental Health
Perspectives, Vol 109, No 2, Feb 2001; see also Submission 24, p.5 (Dr G Pain).
[50] Submission
45, p.1 (Mr J Edwards).
[51] Submission
20, p.16 (AIOH).
[52] Submission
28, p.4 (ACTU).
[53] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.33 (CFMEU).
[54] Submission
20, p.17 (AIOH).
[55] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.7 (Dr Bisby).
[56] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.15 (Dr Bisby).
[57] Submission
20, p.18 (AIOH).
[58] Submission
32, p.4 (Dust Diseases Board of NSW).
[59] Submission
32, p.3 (Dust Diseases Board of NSW).
[60] Submission
13, p.3 (CFMEU).
[61] Submission
11, p.5 (DEWR).
[62] Submission
32, p.6 (Dust Diseases Board of NSW).
[63] Submission
32, p.7 (Dust Diseases Board of NSW); Submission
28, Additional Information (ACTU).
[64] Submission 9,
p.8 (ANZSRS).
[65] Submission 12,
p.2 (WorkSafe WA).
[66] Submission
26, p.26 (WHS).
[67] Submission
26, p.26 (WHS).
[68] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.15 (MCA).
[69] Committee Hansard
10.10.05, pp.16,18 (MCA).
[70] Submission
20, pp.21-22 (AIOH).
[71] Submission
22, p.4 (Mr B Ham).
[72] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.89 (ACTU); 30.9.05, p.25 (CFMEU); see also Submission 28, p.8 (ACTU).
[73] Dust Diseases Board of NSW, A Guide to Compensated Occupational Lung Disease in NSW, p.13.
[74] Submission
26, p.10 (WHS).
[75] Submission
11, p.5 (DEWR).
[76] Submission
11, p.6 (DEWR).
[77] Submission
11, Additional information, 19.12.05 (DEWR).
[78] Submission
11, p.6 (DEWR).
[79] Submission
11, p.7 (DEWR).
[80] Submission
11, p.9 (DEWR).
[81] Submission
11, p.8 (DEWR).
[82] Submission
20, p.11 (AIOH).
[83] Submission
14, p.6 (CCAA).
[84] NOHSC Regulation
Impact Statement on the Proposed Amendments to the National Exposure Standards
for Crystalline Silica, October 2004, p.25.
[85] NOHSC Regulatory Impact Statement, p.19.
[86] Submission
20, p.11 (AIOH).
[87] Wan KC and Lee E, 'Silicosis in Western Australia
from 1984 to 1993', Journal of
Environmental Medicine, 1:27-35.
[88] Committee
Hansard 20.9.05, p.53 (Coal Services).
[89] Submission
20, p.12 (AIOH).
[90] Submission
26, p.6 (WHS).
[91] Submission
26, p.22 (WHS).
[92] Submission
20, p.12 (AIOH).
[93] Submission
20, p.12 (AIOH).
[94] Submission
14, pp.2, 7 (CCAA).
[95] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.6 (Dr J Bisby).
[96] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.7 (Dr J Bisby).
[97] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.27 (Prof E Walters).
[98] NOHSC Regulatory Impact Statement, p.21.
[99] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.24 (CFMEU).
[100] Submission
29, Silicosis – A new claims complex in
liability insurance, p.20 (Munich Holdings of Australasia).
[101] de Klerk NH, Ambrosini GL, Pang SC and Musk AW,
'Silicosis Compensation in Western Australian Gold Miners Since the
Introduction of an Occupational Exposure Standard for Crystalline Silica', Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Vol 46, No 8, pp.687-692, 2002.
[102] Submission
26, p.6 (WHS).
[103] NOHSC Regulatory Impact Statement, pp.17-18.
[104] Submission
19, p.3 (Mr N Karakasch).
[105] Submission
19, p.4 (Mr N Karakasch).
[106] Submission
20, p.10 (AIOH).
[107] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.26 (AIOH).
[108] Submission
20, p.12 (AIOH).
[109] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.3 (CCAA).
[110] Submission
7, p.1 (Prof T Williams).
[111] Submission
7, pp.1-2 (Prof T Williams).
[112] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.27 (Prof E Walters).
[113] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.31 (Prof E Walters).
[114] Submission
20, p.12 (AIOH).
[115] NOHSC Regulatory Impact Statement, p.2.
[116] NOHSC Regulatory Impact Statement, p.21.
[117] Submission
45, Additional information, 19.12.05 (Mr J Edwards).
[118] Submission
24, pp.4-5 (Dr G Pain).
[119] Submission
45, Additional information 19.12.05, 21.3.06 (Mr J Edwards).
[120] Submission
21, p.9 (Coal Services).
[121] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.46 (ALA).
[122] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.50 (ALA).
[123] Submission
28, p.7 (ACTU).
[124] Submission
7, p.2 (Prof T Williams).
[125] NOHSC, Regulation
Impact Statement on the Proposed Amendments to the National Exposure Standards
for Crystalline Silica, October 2004, p.20.
[126] Submission
9, p.6 (ANZSRS).
[127] Submission
21, p.9 (Coal Services).
[128] Submission
14, p.6 (CCAA).
[129] Submission
14, p.6 (CCAA).
[130] Submission
7, p.2 (Professor T Williams).
[131] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.88 (ACTU).
[132] Submission
13, p.3 (CFMEU).
[133] Committee
Hansard p.39 (Dr Faunce).
[134] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.68 (ANZSRS).
[135] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.68 (ANZSRS).
[136] Submission
26, p.3 (WHS).
[137] Submission
22, p.4 (Mr B Ham).
[138] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.94 (ACTU).
[139] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.88 (ACTU).
[140] NOHSC, National
Model Regulations for the Control of Workplace Hazardous Substances, [NOHSC:
1005 (1994)]; Guidelines for Health
Surveillance, [NOHSC: 7039(1995)]. See also Committee Hansard 10.11.05, p.9 (DEWR).
[141] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.9 (DEWR).
[142] Submission
23, p.3 (MCA).
[143] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, pp.52, 55 (Coal Services).
[144] Submission
32, p.5 (Dust Diseases Board of NSW).
[145] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, pp.8, 11 (CCAA).
[146] Submission
23, p.4 (MCA).
[147] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.82 (AMWU).
[148] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.30 (CFMEU).
[149] Submission
23, p.4 (MCA).
[150] Submission
9, p.7; Committee Hansard 29.9.05,
p.68 (ANZSRS).
[151] Submission
9, p.8 (ANZSRS).
[152] See for example, Committee Hansard 30.9.05, p.8 (CCAA); p.32 (CFMEU); p.53 (Coal Services).
[153] Submission
9, p.5 (ANZSRS).
[154] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.82 (AMWU).
[155] Submission
45, p.2 (Mr J Edwards).
[156] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.10 (CCAA).
[157] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.55 (Coal Services); see also Submission 21, p.9 (Coal Services).
[158] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.68 (ANZSRS).
[159] Submission
17, p.1 (Mr RE Devlin).
[160] Submission
25, p.5 (Mr R White et al).
[161] Submission
25, p.6 (Mr R White et al).
[162] Submission
11, p.2 (DEWR).
[163] Submission
11, p.2 (DEWR).
[164] Submission
11, p.2; see also Additional information, 10.11.05 (DEWR).
[165] Submission
11, p.3 (DEWR).
[166] Submission
11, p.3 (DEWR).
[167] Submission
11, pp.4-5 (DEWR).
[168] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.11 (DEWR).
[169] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.24 (AIOH).
[170] Submission
26, p.15 (WHS).
[171] Submission
26, p.10 (WHS).
[172] Submission
26, p.14 (WHS).
[173] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.6 (DEWR).
[174] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, pp.6-7 (DEWR).
[175] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.1 (DEWR).
[176] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.1 (DEWR).
[177] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.6 (DEWR).
[178] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.2 (DEWR).
[179] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.2 (DEWR).
[180] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, pp.2-3 (DEWR).
[181] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.16 (MCA).
[182] Submission
26, pp.17, 22 (WHS).
[183] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.41 (Mr N Karakasch).
[184] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.23 (CFMEU).
[185] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.26 (CFMEU).
[186] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.28 (CFMEU).
[187] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.13 (CMPA).
[188] Submission
20, p.20 (AIOH).
[189] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.24 (AIOH).
[190] Submission
20, p.19 (AIOH).
[191] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.28 (AIOH).
[192] Submission
20, p.21 (AIOH).
[193] Submission
20, Additional information 18.11.05 (AIOH).
[194] Submission
33, p.2 (AMA).
[195] Submission
27, p.3 (ALA).
[196] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.87 (ACTU); Submissions
13, pp.3, 4 (CFMEU) 28, p.6 (ACTU).
[197] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.24 (CFMEU).
[198] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.31 (AIOH); p.13 (CMPA).
[199] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.16 (CCAA).
[200] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.2 (CCAA).
[201] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.51 (Coal Services).
[202] Submission
21, p.8 (Coal Services).
[203] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.2 (DEWR).
[204] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05 pp.40-41 (Mr R White).
[205] Submission
35, p.2 (Victorian Workcover Authority).
[206] Submission
12, p.2 (WorkSafe WA); see also Submission
26, p.24 (WHS) for information available from the Queensland Government.
[207] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.24 (AIOH).
[208] Submission
21, p.8 (Coal Services).
[209] Submission
14, p.3 (CCAA).
[210] Submission
14, p.3 (CCAA); see also Submission
14, pp.4-5 (CCAA) for detailed information on controls and management systems.
[211] Submission
20, p.20 (AIOH).
[212] Submission
14, p.3 (CCAA).
[213] Submission
28, p.7 (ACTU).
[214] Submission
20, p.20 (AIOH).
[215] Submission
26, p.22 (WHS).
[216] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.87 (ACTU); see also Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.24 (CFMEU).
[217] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.17 (CMPA).
[218] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, pp.12-13 (DEWR).
[219] Submission
7, p.2 (Professor T Williams).
[220] NOHSC, Draft
Technical Report on Crystalline Silica, 1996, AGPS, Canberra.
[221] NOHSC, Regulation
Impact Statement on the Proposed Amendments to the National Exposure Standards
for Crystalline Silica, October 2004, p.25.
[222] NOHSC Regulatory Impact Statement, p.67.
[223] Submission
11, p.4 (DEWR).
[224] Submission
28, p.5 (ACTU).
[225] Committee
Hansard 29.09.05 (ACTU); see also Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.23 (CFMEU).
[226] Submission
15, Additional information p.2 (AMWU); Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.27 (CFMEU).
[227] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.27 (CFMEU).
[228] Submission
26, p.4 (WHS).
[229] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05 p.24 (Mr Jennings).
[230] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.27 (Mr Jennings).
[231] Submission
20, Additional information, p.1 (AIOH).
[232] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.17 (CMPA); see also p.20 (CMPA).
[233] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.2 (CCAA).
[234] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.15 (MCA).
[235] Submission
21, p.6 (Coal Services).
[236] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.52 (Coal Services).
[237] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.1 (DEWR).
[238] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.10 (DEWR).
[239] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.11 (DEWR).
[240] Submission
45, p.3 (Mr J Edwards).
[241] Submission
45, Additional information 21.3.06 (Mr J Edwards).
[242] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.84 (AMWU).
[243] Submission
32, pp.8-9 (Dust Diseases Board).
[244] Submission
35, p.2 (Victorian Workcover Authority).
[245] Ebrief, www.normans.com.au/news/empl_issue37_jan2006.html
[246] The Hon P Holloway, Legislative Council Hansard, 1.12.05.
[247] Submission
15, Additional information, p.2. (AMWU).
[248] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.49 (Dr T Faunce).
[249] Submission
13, p.4 (CFMEU).
[250] Committee
Hansard 30.9.05, p.13 (Dr J Bisby)
[251] Submission
25, p.2 (ASDC).
[252] Submission
15, Additional Information p.4 (AMWU).
[253] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05. p,39 (Dr Faunce).
[254] Submission
21, p.7 (Coal Services).
[255] Submission
25, p.3 (ASDC).
[256] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.38 (Dr Faunce).
[257] Committee
Hansard 10.11.2005. p,30 (Prof Walters).
[258] Submission
25, p.10 (ASDC).
[259] Submission
25, p.10 (ASDC).
[260] Submission
42, p.6. (Mr AF Hobday).
[261] Submission
27, p.4 (ALA).
[262] Submission
15, Additional Information, p.2 (AMWU). The UADFA is collectively, the Asbestos
Diseases Foundation of Australia, the Queensland Asbestos Related Diseases
Support Society, the CFMEU (Construction Division – NSW), Maritime Union of
Australia (NSW) and AMWU.
[263] Submission
32, p.9 (Dust Diseases Board of NSW).
[264] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.35 (Mr R White).
[265] Submission
28, p.8 (ACTU).
[266] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.43 (Mr N Karakasch).
[267] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, pp.50 (ALA).
[268] Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and
Innovation Council Working Group, Nanotechnology:
Enabling technologies for Australian innovative industries, 11.03.05, p.3.
[269] PMSEIC, p.9.
[270] PMSEIC, p.8; for more detailed information on
examples of nanotechnology, see PMSEIC, p.13-17.
[271] The Royal Society & The Royal Academy of
Engineering, Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies:
opportunities and uncertainties, London, July 2004, p.2.
[272] Institute of Occupational Medicine for the Health
and Safety Executive, Nanoparticles: An
occupational hygiene review, Research Report 274, 2004, p.10. www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrhtm/rr274.htm
[273] Hazards
Magazine, 'Dangers come in small particles', Issue 87. www.hazards.org/nanotech/safety.htm
[274] NIOSH, Nanotechnology
and Occupational Safety and Health Research www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/faq.html
[275] Woodrow Wilson International Centre for
Scholars, New Nanotechnology Consumer
Products Inventory, www.wilsoncenter.org
[276] The Royal Society-Science Council of Japan, Report of a Joint Workshop on impacts of
nanotechnologies, July 2005, p.2.
[277] PMSEIC, p.11.
[278] Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, A Nanotechnology Consumer Products
Inventory, www.nanotechproject.org/consumerproducts
[279] Submission
10, p.7 (Friends of the Earth).
[280] PMSEIC, p.11.
[281] PMSEIC, p.9.
[282] NIOSH, Nanotechnology
and Occupational Safety and Health Research, http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/faq.html
[283] Submission
10, p.12 (Friends of the Earth).
[284] Submission
10, p.6 (Friends of the Earth).
[285] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.58 (Friends of the Earth).
[286] Submission
10, p.8 (Friends of the Earth).
[287] UK Health and Safety Executive, p.12.
[288] UK Health and Safety Executive, pp.12-14.
[289] The Royal Society-Science Council of Japan, p.3.
[290] Submission
23, p.4 (MCA).
[291] Submission
10, p.8 (Friends of the Earth) citing Wichmann HE and Peters A,
'Epidemiological evidence of the effects of ultrafine particle exposure', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society, London, 2000, A 358:2751-2769.
[292] Submission
10, p.9 (Friends of the Earth).
[293] Committee
Hansard 29.0.05, p.55 (Friends of the Earth).
[294] Submission
10, p.10 (Friends of the Earth).
[295] Submission
28, p.9, Additional Information, p.2 (ACTU).
[296] NIOSH, Approaches
to Safe Nanotechnology: An Information Exchange with NIOSH www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/nano_exchange.html
[297] Submission
20, p.24 (AIOH).
[298] Submission
15, p.2 (AMWU).
[299] Submission
29.9.05, p.55 (Friends of the Earth).
[300] Committee
Hansard 29.0.05, p.56; Submission
10, p.4 (Friends of the Earth).
[301] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.31 (AIOH).
[302] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.60 (Friends of the Earth).
[303] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.57 (Friends of the Earth).
[304] NIOSH, www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/faq.html
[305] ISO, ISO
launches work on nanotechnology standards, 16.11.05, www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/pressreleases/archives/2005/Ref980.html
[306] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.8 (GeneEthics Network).
[307] Submission
26, p.25 (WHS).
[308] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, pp.59-60 (Friends of the Earth).
[309] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.61 (Friends of the Earth).
[310] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.57 (Friends of the Earth).
[311] Submission
31, p.1 (GeneEthics Network).
[312] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.5 (GeneEthics Network).
[313] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.60 (Friends of the Earth).
[314] Submission
20, p.25 (AIOH).
[315] Submission
15, pp.2-3 (AMWU).
[316] Submission
28, p.10 (ACTU).
[317] Committee
Hansard 29.9.05, p.90 (ACTU).
[318] Submissions
10, p.17 (Friends of the Earth); 31, p.1 (GeneEthics Network); seel also Committee Hansard 29.9.05, p.61 (Friends of the Earth).
[319] Submission
10, p.17 (Friends of the Earth).
[320] Submission
31A, p.2 (GeneEthics Network).
[321] Committee
Hansard 10.11.05, p.2 (DEWR).
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