DAIA Member's Forum - WHSQ presentation on Silica in Construction Code

11.45am

Registration

12.00pm sharp

Lunch & Networking (Bar open)

Brad Geinitz from the Office of Industrial Relations will be speaking on a number of points including:

• A quick refresher on RCS (Respirable Crystalline Silica) as a health hazard - why it is a problem
• Background and development on the code
  
• Key elements of the code
  
• Answer questions.

Tim Brewer, Active Environmental Solutions (AES) is a specialist supplier of equipment to monitor atmospheric hazards in the workplace, with solutions for the occupational health and safety professional and equipment to improve worker safety.
AES will be presenting the Trolex Air XS, the first and only product in the world to detect and distinguish respirable crystalline silica (RCS) in real time.  Designed to function in challenging industrial environments, it detects all forms of crystalline silica and can track changing levels or RCS in complex dust mixtures over time. 

2.15pm

Networking - Bar open for 1 hour after Forum