WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2003 - SCHEDULE 2
This legislation has been repealed.
WORKERS COMPENSATION REGULATION 2003 - SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 2 – Diseases
(Clause 5)
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| Poisoning by lead, its alloys or compounds, and its sequelae. | Handling of ore
containing lead including fine shot in zinc factories. Casting of old zinc and lead in ingots. Manufacture of articles made of cast lead or of lead alloys. Employment in the polygraphic industries. Manufacture of lead compounds. Manufacture and repair of electric accumulators. Preparation and use of enamels containing lead. Polishing by means of lead files or putty powder with a lead content. All painting operations involving the preparation and manipulation of coating substances, cements or colouring substances containing lead pigments. |
| Poisoning by mercury or its amalgams or compounds, and its sequelae. | Handling
of mercury ore. Manufacture of mercury compounds. Manufacture of measuring and laboratory apparatus. Preparation of raw material for the hat-making industry. Hot gilding. Use of mercury pumps in the manufacture of incandescent lamps. Manufacture of fulminate of mercury primers. |
| Anthrax infection. | Work in connection with animals infected with anthrax. Handling of animal carcases or parts of such carcases including hides, hoofs and horns. Loading and unloading or transport of merchandise that has come in contact with animals infected with anthrax or with animal carcases or parts of such carcases. |
| Phosphorus poisoning by phosphorus or its compounds, and its sequelae. | Any process involving the production, liberation or utilisation of phosphorus or its compounds. |
| Arsenic poisoning by arsenic or its compounds, and its sequelae. | Any process involving the production, liberation or utilisation of arsenic or its compounds. |
| Poisoning by benzene or its homologues, their nitro- and amido-derivatives, and its sequelae. | Any process involving the production, liberation or utilisation of benzene or its homologues, or their nitro- and amido-derivatives. |
| Poisoning by the halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series. | Any process involving the production, liberation or utilisation of halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series. |
| Pathological manifestations of a kind that are due to or contributed to by:(a) radium and other radioactive substances,(b) X-rays. | Any process involving exposure to the action of radium, radioactive substances or X-rays. |
| Primary epitheliomatous cancer of the skin. | Any process involving the handling or use of tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, paraffin, or the compounds, products or residues of these substances. |
| Brucellosis, Leptospirosis and Q fever. | Slaughtering of cattle on the
slaughter-floor of an abattoir or slaughter-house. Handling or processing of the slaughtered carcases of cattle in an abattoir or slaughter-house. Penning up or running cattle through a race at an abattoir or slaughter-house. Any activity, incidental or necessary to the carrying out of the above activities, on the slaughter-floor, in any area where the raw by-products of slaughtered cattle are handled or in or about any pen or race of an abattoir or slaughter-house. |