More than 90,000 blue collar workers in Australia could be at risk of cancer, unions and cancer prevention advocates warned. They said the problem stemmed from a lack of coordination between regulators to reduce exposure to carcinogens and the absence of any incentive for industries to act. A national cancer at work forum hosted by Cancer Council Australia (CCA) and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) heard the highest numbers of at-risk workers are employed in machinery manufacture, printing and allied industries, the food industry and plastics manufacture.

CCA news release, 3 May 2012. Herald Sun.