{"id":89014,"date":"2026-05-11T13:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89014"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:05:35","slug":"killer-kitchen-dust-banned-after-lung-disease-deaths-of-young-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/11\/killer-kitchen-dust-banned-after-lung-disease-deaths-of-young-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer kitchen dust banned after lung disease deaths of young workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"attachment_67158\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67158\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67158\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silica-dust-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silica-dust-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silica-dust-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silica-dust-770x435.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silica-dust-1536x867.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silica-dust-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/silica-dust.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-67158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worker cutting stone with grinder.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A ban on unsafe cutting of kitchen worktop stone was introduced today for the first time by UK regulators, after\u00a0<em>The i Paper<\/em>\u00a0sounded the alarm over rising\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/silicosis-mps-officials-unions-ban-kitchen-stone-3629809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">silicosis cases in young tradesmen.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/killer-kitchen-dust-banned-after-lung-disease-deaths-of-young-workers\/ar-AA22SCz2?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=6a01cedbaf6b4b45aa242b9754447b62&amp;ei=30\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A ban on unsafe cutting of kitchen worktop stone was introduced today for the first time by UK regulators, after\u00a0The i Paper\u00a0sounded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/silicosis1.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89015,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89014\/revisions\/89015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}