10830NAT Course in Crystalline Silica Exposure Prevention Sydney
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Is your workplace compliant with NSW silica exposure laws? The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 requires all employers to ensure that any of their workers and PCBUSs potentially exposed to crystalline silica dust receive proper training. Failure to do so can result in significant penalties and, more importantly, serious health and safety risks for your team.
Sydney Safety Training delivers the nationally recognised 10830NAT Course in Crystalline Silica Exposure Prevention – a mandatory qualification that protects your workers and ensures you remain compliant. You can attend our fully-equipped training facility in Villawood, or our expert trainers can come to your site.
This 10830nat course makes compliance and awareness simple. Protect your team and your bottom dollar – enrol today.
Silica Dust Awareness Training Is a Workplace Responsibility
The workplace health and safety law outlines that employers or persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) must control the risks associated with silica exposure. They must ensure all workers who may come into contact with silica dust understand the risks, the control measures, and company policy, and procedures when dealing with this hazard.
Sydney Safety Training’s crystalline silica exposure prevention course helps workplaces manage the risk of exposure and its impact on workers’ health.
Why Our 10830Nat Course in Crystalline Silica Exposure Prevention
Sydney Safety Training experts lead the way in cutting-edge educational approaches that go beyond just certification—we ensure participants truly grasp and internalise every aspect of the course content. Drawing from extensive field experience and hands-on expertise, our instructors bring authentic workplace insights to each crystalline silica training course.
The curriculum emphasises practical comprehension and long-term retention, equipping participants to confidently navigate real-life hazardous scenarios rather than simply completing paperwork requirements. At Sydney Safety Training, our focus is on building genuine competency that translates directly to workplace safety.
- Participants must be able to communicate in English and complete all necessary documentation.
- We can train people where English is an issue, but it needs to be on a specially scheduled programme, and you will need to provide an interpreter.
Working With Silica Legislation
Work Health and Safety Act 2011
The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act) establishes a number of primary duties for a PCBU. Under section 19, the PCBU has a duty to ensure the workplace health and safety of various persons.
This duty is paramount. In other words, if a PCBU is involved in work with materials linked to Silica exposure, so far as is reasonably practicable, no person’s health is to be affected by that work.
Section 19 duties as they apply to the use of Silica in the workplace include providing and maintaining safe:
- Work environment
- Plant and structures for working with materials containing Silica
- Systems of work
- Use of Silica-containing substances
- Information, instruction, training and supervision
Our safety course experts will ensure you receive the best silica exposure training for compliance. Book your course today!
Course Information
- Every Tuesday and Thursday for public bookings
- Private courses available outside these days
- Check-in no later than 6:50 am for 7 am start
- Finish approx 11 am
Sydney Safety Training Centre
211 Woodville Rd Villawood 2163
Work Health and Safety 2011 Chapter 81 Crystalline Silica (and all recent amendments)
The course covers:
- What crystalline silica is
- Health risks associated with exposure (silicosis, lung disease, etc) and signs/symptoms.
- Health risks associated with exposure (silicosis, lung disease, etc) and signs/symptoms.
- Relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, and standards.
- Safety Data Sheets (SDS) interpretation.
- Hierarchy of controls: how to eliminate/minimise risk (engineering controls, administrative controls, PPE, etc).
- Risk assessments/hazard prevention; developing Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) or similar
- Download the ACT Silica Student Handbook and the crystalline silica Code of Practice
- Group discounts and on-site rates also available.
- At your site, we will require a training room suitable for the number of people you are booking. A digital projector or large format screen is also required. However, we can bring our own projector if need be.
- Please fill out:
- Sydney Safety Training Group Booking Form
- Sydney Safety Training On-Site Checklist
Our training facility comfortably accommodates up to 20 people, including all presentation equipment.
12 points (three points per hour for four hours)
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FAQs
The major risks previously observed have been greatly diminished over the last five decades; however, thousands of workers are still potentially at risk from exposure.
Silica remains an important risk factor for respiratory disease, which is a Safe Work Australia focus for recognition, prevention and management.
Silicosis
The basic concern about quartz or RCS is that it is toxic to the human body in several ways. Principally it is fibrogenic (promoting the development of fibrous tissue) to the lung causing silicosis.
It is the Silica dusts, mostly smaller than 10 μm in diameter, that are potentially damaging to the lung. This size range cannot be seen by the naked eye in ordinary lighting. That fraction of a dust cloud which penetrates the alveolar space of the lung is referred to as the respirable fraction. The respirable fraction of a dust cloud must be measured to assess the disease risk from dusts containing RCS. Size and surface area of particles are important determinants of their toxicity but are not specifically measured.
Industries
Because Silica is widely encountered in extractive industries, in the manufacture of many concrete-based building materials, and finds widespread use in manufacturing processes, the number of Queensland workers potentially exposed is large. Typical leading industries include:
- Tunneling
- Foundries
- Stonemasonry
- Cement manufacturing
- Power generation
- Brick and tile manufacturing
- Ceramics
- Construction, including granite grinding and polishing
- Metal polishing
- Architectural abrasive blasting
- Quarrying
- Mining
Sydney Safety Training provides fully accredited, compliant crystalline silica prevention training. Enrol in our four-hour course every Monday and Wednesday. Call 02 9892 3370.
Yes. Any PCBUs operating in NSW who are involved in processing crystalline silica substances or at risk of exposure to particles must undertake adequate training. You can achieve full compliance by completing a four-hour course with Sydney Safety Training.
This course is valid for five years. Some industries or employers may require a refresher to be completed every one to three years. While the validity of the training doesn’t expire, people do need training renewal if there are any major changes to regulatory compliance.
Yes, we provide on-site silica exposure prevention training from our purpose-built Sydney Safety Training mobile centre. Fill out the forms provided above or call us on 02 9892 3370.
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$375
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