This Regulation Impact Statement provides an analysis of the impact of a prohibition on the use of engineered stone under current Work Health and Safety laws in response to the epidemic of occupational lung disease including accelerated silicosis in the engineered stone industry.

This report responds to the multiple challenges currently impacting Victoria’s building and construction industry including skills and labour shortages, supply shortages, price increases, significant workplace stress and mental health issues. It also sets out best-practice skills, practices and innovation being developed and applied in leading international jurisdictions.

This report is a case study providing insights into the lived experience that many apartment owners suffer in buildings with defects. It comes three years into the building reforms being implemented in New South Wales to lift the compliance of and public confidence in residential apartment buildings.

This strategy outlines a planned and coordinated approach to growing the size, strength, and capabilities of the community housing workforce in order to improve outcomes for community housing tenants.

This paper looks at the building industry regulatory framework and initiatives of the NSW Government and explores the progress of recommendations arising from two recent parliamentary inquiries.