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Building and construction consultations
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Work with engineered stone and materials containing crystalline silica
- Minister's foreword
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Current risk requirements
- Problem definition
- Options for working with engineered stone and materials containing crystalline silica
- Closing remarks
- Summary of all consultation questions
- Glossary
- Annex I: Silicosis and engineered stone background
- Annex II: Overview of the health and safety regulatory regime
- Annex III: Revised Workplace Exposure Standard
- Annex IV: Further information on the status quo
- Annex V: Australia’s amendments to its regulatory settings in response to the risks posed by RCS
- Making it easier to build granny flats (2024)
- Building Code fire safety review discussion document
- Review of the building consent system (snapshot)
- Proposed amendments to the BuiltReady Scheme Rules public consultation
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Building consent system review: Options paper summary of submissions
- Introduction
- Key themes from submissions
- Promoting competition in the building regulatory system
- Removing impediments to product substitution and variation
- Strengthening roles and responsibilities
- New assurance pathways
- More efficient and streamlined delivery of building consent services
- Better performance monitoring and system stewardship
- Better responding to the needs and aspirations of Māori
- Addressing the interface between the building and resource consent system
- Submitter details
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Improving efficiency in the inspection process: Discussion document
- Use of information
- Minister's foreword
- Introduction
- Increasing the uptake of remote inspections
- Section one: Options to increase the uptake of remote inspections and improve efficiency of inspection processes
- Section two: Increasing inspection capacity through the use of Accredited Organisations (Building)
- Appendix one: Full list of consultation questions
- Appendix two: Summary of options for feedback
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Consultation document: Insulation requirements in housing and other buildings
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Insulation in housing and small buildings
- 3. Insulation in large buildings
- Appendix A: Proposed changes to Acceptable Solution H1/AS1 Energy Efficiency for all housing, and bu
- Appendix B: Proposed changes to Verification Method H1/VM1 Energy Efficiency for all housing, and buildings up to 300m squared
- Appendix C: Proposed changes to Acceptable Solution H1/AS2 Energy Efficiency for buildings greater than 300m squared
- Appendix D: Proposed changes to Verification Method H1/VM2 Energy Efficiency for buildings greater than 300m squared
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Work with engineered stone and materials containing crystalline silica
Closing remarks
This discussion document has outlined several options to further regulate the risk management of workers exposure to RCS. We seek your views on your preferred package of options.
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This discussion document has outlined several options to further regulate the risk management of workers exposure to RCS. We seek your views on your preferred package of options.
The options outlined in this discussion document are preliminary only. Their inclusion in this document does not imply that changes will be made, and we note that new options may be developed based on submissions received.
We asked a series of questions through this document. Your answers and any additional information that you can provide will help us determine what is the best option to ensure workers’ health and safety in engineered stone and other RCS-generative industries.
Following consultation, a summary of submissions will be made and publicly released. The submissions will help inform options to the Minister and whether or not regulatory change is required to meet the objectives of the policy problem. Once decisions have been taken, announcements will be made about any changes to the public.
Should regulations be required to implement the preferred option(s), this will follow the standard secondary legislation process.[1]
Closing questions
17. Do you have a preferred option or package of options? Which option(s) and why?
18. Are there any other options to control RCS risks that we have not presented in this paper?
Additional questions for businesses
36. Do you currently use alternative materials to engineered stone or engineered stone with lower crystalline silica content? If so, why?
37. Has the ban in Australia and other measures taken overseas had any impact on your ability to import stone, or in the level of crystalline silica present in the stone you import?
38. How long would it take you to transition your supply of engineered stone products to lower crystalline silica content containing products, or alternative benchtop materials (if possible for your business)?
39. What would you expect costs to be of a full or partial ban?
40. How does option 5 compare with what you are already doing?