{ "dataset": "regulations", "name": "Regulation register", "description": "Federal, California, and international rules, statutes, bills and petitions on silica and engineered stone.", "page": "https://silicosislawsuit.com/california/regulations/", "license": "CC BY 4.0, attribution to silicosislawsuit.com", "record_count": 9, "last_verified": "2026-09-12", "records": [ { "reg_id": "au-engineered-stone-ban-2024", "title": "Australian prohibition on engineered stone benchtops, panels and slabs", "jurisdiction": "Australia (Commonwealth, states and territories)", "body": "WHS ministers / Safe Work Australia", "type": "regulation", "status": "In force", "key_dates": [ { "date": "2023-12-13", "event": "WHS ministers unanimously agree to ban" }, { "date": "2024-07-01", "event": "Prohibition commences in all jurisdictions" }, { "date": "2024-12-31", "event": "End of transitional exemption for contracts signed on or before 31 December 2023" } ], "summary": "World-first ban on the manufacture, supply, processing and installation of engineered stone benchtops, panels and slabs containing at least 1% crystalline silica.", "requirements": [], "sources": [ "safeworkaustralia-ban" ], "verification_status": "verified_primary", "last_verified": "2026-09-12" }, { "reg_id": "ca-cdph-silicosis-reportable-2025", "title": "Silicosis made a reportable disease in California", "jurisdiction": "California", "body": "California Department of Public Health", "type": "regulation", "status": "In force", "key_dates": [ { "date": "2025-06", "event": "Reportability effective" }, { "date": "2025-11-17", "event": "CDPH CAHAN advisory to providers" } ], "summary": "Health care providers must report identified or suspected silicosis to the local health department within seven calendar days. CDPH shares cases with Cal/OSHA under SB 20.", "requirements": [ "Provider reporting within 7 calendar days" ], "sources": [ "cdph-reportable-2025-11-17" ], "verification_status": "verified_primary", "last_verified": "2026-09-12" }, { "reg_id": "ca-oshsb-petition-609", "title": "Petition 609: proposed prohibition on fabrication and installation of artificial stone containing more than 1% crystalline silica", "jurisdiction": "California", "body": "Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board", "type": "petition", "status": "Granted in part; rulemaking initiated", "key_dates": [ { "date": "2025-12", "event": "Petition filed by the Western Occupational and Environmental Medicine Association (WOEMA), backed by more than 600 health professionals" }, { "date": "2026-04-10", "event": "Cal/OSHA evaluation memorandum" }, { "date": "2026-05-21", "event": "Board votes unanimously (three members present) to grant the petition in part, directs Cal/OSHA to prepare an emergency finding for expedited rulemaking and to convene advisory committees" } ], "summary": "If adopted, California would become the first US state to prohibit fabrication and installation of high-silica engineered stone. An emergency temporary standard would last one year while permanent rules are developed. No text had been adopted as of this project's last check.", "requirements": [], "sources": [ "phw-2026-05-21", "workcompwire-2026-05", "dir-2026-45", "oshsb-petition-609-eval" ], "verification_status": "verified_secondary", "last_verified": "2026-09-12" }, { "reg_id": "ca-oshsb-rcs-ets-2023", "title": "Cal/OSHA emergency temporary standard on respirable crystalline silica (amendments to Title 8 CCR section 5204)", "jurisdiction": "California", "body": "Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board / Cal/OSHA", "type": "emergency_regulation", "status": "Superseded by the permanent standard", "key_dates": [ { "date": "2023-12-14", "event": "Standards Board approves the ETS" }, { "date": "2023-12-29", "event": "ETS effective, for one year" } ], "summary": "Targeted 'high-exposure trigger tasks' (cutting, grinding, polishing, clean-up) on artificial stone and natural stone over 10% silica, tightening controls, respirator use and reporting.", "requirements": [ "Applies to high-exposure trigger tasks on stone over 10% crystalline silica", "Enhanced controls and respiratory protection", "Reporting of silicosis cases" ], "sources": [ "aiha-2024-01-04", "littler-2025-01-15" ], "verification_status": "verified_secondary", "last_verified": "2026-09-12" }, { "reg_id": "ca-oshsb-rcs-permanent-2024", "title": "Cal/OSHA permanent respirable crystalline silica standard (Title 8 CCR section 5204, as amended)", "jurisdiction": "California", "body": "Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board", "type": "regulation", "status": "In force", "key_dates": [ { "date": "2024-12-19", "event": "Standards Board votes unanimously to make the emergency provisions permanent" }, { "date": "2025", "event": "Effective after Office of Administrative Law approval; exact date not verified by this project" } ], "summary": "Continues and strengthens the 2023 emergency standard: exposure assessments reassessed every six months, engineering and work-practice controls, medical surveillance with medical removal protection, written exposure control plans, and 24-hour reporting of confirmed silicosis or cancer cases.", "requirements": [ "Exposure assessment every six months", "Medical removal protection up to six months", "Written exposure control plan reviewed annually", "24-hour employer reporting of confirmed RCS-related silicosis or cancer" ], "sources": [ "littler-2025-01-15", "aiha-2025-01-09" ], "verification_status": "verified_secondary", "last_verified": "2026-09-12" }, { "reg_id": "ca-sb20-2025", "title": "SB 20, Silicosis Training, Outreach, and Prevention (STOP) Act (Chapter 734, Statutes of 2025)", "jurisdiction": "California", "body": "California Legislature", "type": "statute", "status": "In force from 1 January 2026", "key_dates": [ { "date": "2024-12", "event": "Introduced by Senator Caroline Menjivar" }, { "date": "2025-10-13", "event": "Signed and chaptered (Chapter 734)" }, { "date": "2026-01-01", "event": "Operative" }, { "date": "2026-07-01", "event": "First annual training attestation due to Cal/OSHA" } ], "summary": "Amends Labor Code sections 6302 and 6432 and adds Chapter 2.2 (sections 6359.1 to 6359.5). Prohibits dry methods for high-exposure trigger tasks on artificial stone, requires annual employer attestation of training, classifies artificial-stone silicosis as a serious injury or illness, requires CDPH to report cases to Cal/OSHA within three business days and Cal/OSHA to investigate within three business days, and requires CDPH worker outreach.", "requirements": [ "Wet methods only for high-exposure trigger tasks on artificial stone", "Annual employer attestation from 1 July 2026", "Silicosis treated as a serious injury or illness", "CDPH-to-Cal/OSHA case referral within three business days" ], "sources": [ "leginfo-sb20", "sd20-2025-10-14" ], "verification_status": "verified_primary", "last_verified": "2026-09-12" }, { "reg_id": "us-hr5437-119", "title": "H.R. 5437, Protection of Lawful Commerce in Stone Slab Products Act (119th Congress)", "jurisdiction": "United States (federal)", "body": "U.S. House of Representatives", "type": "bill", "status": "Ordered reported by the House Judiciary Committee; not passed", "key_dates": [ { "date": "2025-09-17", "event": "Introduced by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA); referred to the Judiciary Committee" }, { "date": "2026-01-14", "event": "Judiciary subcommittee hearing, 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Protecting the American Stone Slab Industry'; witnesses included former OSHA head David Michaels" }, { "date": "2026-06-03", "event": "Committee markup; ordered reported as amended, 16 to 7" } ], "summary": "Would bar civil actions against manufacturers and sellers of stone slab products for injuries from respirable silica arising from third-party fabrication, and, as reported, would apply to pending cases. Sixteen cosponsors listed as of the last check. Opposed by public-health and labour witnesses; supported by the engineered-stone industry.", "requirements": [], "sources": [ "congress-hr5437", "quiverquant-hr5437", "docs-house-ju03-2026-01-14", "kff-2026-03-12" ], "verification_status": "verified_secondary", "last_verified": "2026-09-12" }, { "reg_id": "us-osha-niosh-hazard-alert", "title": "OSHA/NIOSH Hazard Alert: Worker Exposure to Silica during Countertop Manufacturing, Finishing and Installation", "jurisdiction": "United States (federal)", "body": "OSHA and NIOSH", "type": "guidance", "status": "Current (2026 edition)", "key_dates": [ { "date": "2015", "event": "Original alert issued, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication 2015-106" }, { "date": "2026-02-26", "event": "Jointly updated alert issued, NIOSH 2026-101 / OSHA HA-3768-2026" } ], "summary": "Non-binding federal guidance warning employers that countertop fabrication can expose workers to silica above the PEL and describing controls.", "requirements": [], "sources": [ "niosh-2015-106", "niosh-2026-101" ], "verification_status": "verified_primary", "last_verified": "2026-09-12" }, { "reg_id": "us-osha-rcs-2016", "title": "OSHA respirable crystalline silica standard (29 CFR 1910.1053 and 1926.1153)", "jurisdiction": "United States (federal)", "body": "Occupational Safety and Health Administration", "type": "regulation", "status": "In force", "key_dates": [ { "date": "2016-03-25", "event": "Final rule published, 81 FR 16286" }, { "date": "2016-06-23", "event": "Rule effective" }, { "date": "2018-06-23", "event": "General industry compliance date (per rule text; not separately re-verified)" } ], "summary": "Sets a permissible exposure limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre (8-hour TWA) and an action level of 25, with exposure assessment, engineering controls, respiratory protection, medical surveillance and training requirements.", "requirements": [ "PEL 50 ug/m3 8-hour TWA", "Action level 25 ug/m3", "Written exposure control plan", "Medical surveillance for exposed workers" ], "sources": [ "fr-2016-04800" ], "verification_status": "verified_primary", "last_verified": "2026-09-12" } ] }