Good Practice Guide
In this section you will find the Good Practice Guide for working with construction surfaces sold by the Cosentino® Group, in multiple languages.
While new translations are incorporated to this repository, automatic translations are made available at this site. Please, use the contact form available if you want to receive this information translated by a professional translator to your language.
Good Practice Guide
This guide provides information and recommendations on health and safety issues to be considered when cutting, grinding, polishing and installing SILESTONE®, DEKTON®, ECO®, SENSA®, SCALEA®, SILQ®, INTEGRITY® and PREXURY® BY COSENTINO®.
Download PDF: Spanish – English – German – French – Hebrew – Italian – Dutch – Portuguese – Swedish – Turquish – Polish
Health & Safety Guide for Installers
This guide is aimed at professionals who install kitchen, bath or similar countertops, whether they are prefabricated modules that have just been fabricated and installed at a customer’s house or installation of countertops fabricated in the workshop whether it is natural stone, engineered stone or ceramic materials.
Safety Manual Logistics Operations
The purpose of this manual is to establish, implement and develop measures for the prevention, protection and control of occupational risks in logistics tasks involving stockpiling, loading of trucks (boxes, platforms or containers) with slabs (Silestone®, natural stone and Dekton®) elaborated, and to set up the necessary channels to guarantee their enforcement.
Recommended Resource Materials, Good Practice Guides and Videos
Different local or regional administrations, as well as sectorial associations, are publishing their own informative materials, Good Practice Guides and videos related to the risk of working with crystalline silica, and the good practices to assure the safety and health of the workers.
We encourage you to check the materials prepared by Nepsi at www.nepsi.eu. In particular the Nepsi Good Practice Guides at http://guide.nepsi.eu and the Toolkit designed specifically for SME at http://toolkit.nepsi.eu. Make sure to check also the Nepsi e-Training platform at http://training.nepsi.eu about possible dangers of respirable crystalline silica and how best to protect yourself.
Other guides and multimedia material are possibly available in your country. We give you here some examples of educational videos, which we recommend you watching.
Spanish CTM and INSST: Exposure to crystalline silica in construction materials
US OSHA: Protecting Workers from Silica Hazards in the Workplace
Australian SafeWork NSW: Working safely with crystalline silica
NEPSI European Network on Silica: Presentation of Good Practices