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WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SCHEDULE 3

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SCHEDULE 3

[s. 32]

        [Heading amended: No. 19 of 2010 s. 4.]

Column 1

Description of Disease

Column 2

Description of Process

* Arsenic, phosphorus, lead, mercury or other mineral poisoning

Any employment involving the use or handling of arsenic, phosphorus, lead, mercury, or other mineral, or their preparations or compounds.

* Anthrax

Wool-combing; wool-sorting; handling of hides, skins, wool, hair, bristles, or carcasses; loading and unloading or transport of merchandise.

Communicable diseases

Employment in an occupation or in a situation exposing the worker to infection by the intermediate hosts of any communicable disease or by agencies transmitting any communicable disease, where within a reasonable period of incubation, specific infection has followed demonstrable action of the particular vectors or agents concerned in the transmission of that disease, or where that action can be reasonably presumed.

* Poisoning by trinitrotoluene or by benzol or its nitro and amido derivatives (dinitrobenzol, aniline and others)

Any process involving the use of trinitrotoluene or of the nitro and amido derivatives of benzol or its preparations or compounds.

Poisoning by a homologue of benzol

Any process involving the use of homologue of benzol.

* Poisoning by carbon bisulphide

Any process involving the use of carbon bisulphide or its preparations or compounds.

Poisoning by a halogen derivative of a hydrocarbon of the aliphatic series

Any process involving the use of a halogen derivative or a hydrocarbon of the aliphatic series.

* Poisoning by nitrous fumes

Any process in which nitrous fumes are evolved.

* Poisoning by fluorine

Any process in which fluorine is used.

* Poisoning by cyanogen compounds

Any process in which cyanogen compounds are used.

* Poisoning by carbon monoxide

Any process in which carbon monoxide is used, or evolved.

* Leptospirosis; endemic typhus, scrub typhus, Brill’s disease, swineherds disease, plague, mite dermatitis and scrub itch

Employment in an occupation or in a situation exposing the worker to infection with a specific disease transmissible from animal to man where the specific infection associated with occupation or situation develops within its known incubation period and can be reasonably presumed to have occurred in the course of such employment.

* Chrome ulceration

Any process involving the use of chromic acid or bichromate of ammonium, potassium, or sodium, or their preparations.

Effects of insolation

Work entailing prolonged exposure to sunlight.

Effects of electrical currents

Workers exposed to electrical currents.

Any dematosis, ulceration or injury to the skin or ulceration or injury to the mucous membranes of the mouth or nose wholly or partly produced or aggravated by contact with or inhalation or ingestion of irritating dusts, solids, gases or fumes or mineral or vegetable irritants or ray burn

Any industrial process.

Epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of skin or of the corneal surface of the eye due to tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, paraffin, or the compounds, products or residues of those substances.

Handling of tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, paraffin, or the compounds, products, or residues of those substances.

* Pneumoconiosis

Any process entailing exposure to mineral dusts harmful to the lungs.

Mesothelioma

Any process entailing substantial exposure to asbestos dust.

Pathological manifestation due to —

(a)         radium and other radioactive substances;

Any process involving exposure to the action of radium, radioactive substances, X-rays or lasers.

(b)         X-rays;



(c)         lasers.



Hepatitis B

Employment in a hospital or other medical centre or a dental hospital or dental centre or employment associated with a blood bank.

Lung cancer

Any process entailing heavy exposure to asbestos dust.

Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by cotton, flax, hemp or sisal dust

Any process entailing exposure to cotton, flax, hemp or sisal dust.

Occupational asthma caused by sensitizing agents or irritants inherent to the work process

Any process entailing exposure to sensitizing agents or irritants inherent to that process

Extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by the inhalation of organic dusts

Any process entailing exposure to organic dusts.

Diseases caused by alcohols, glycols or ketones

Any process entailing exposure to alcohols, glycols or ketones.

Diseases caused by the asphyxiants carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide or its toxic derivatives or hydrogen sulfide

Any process in which carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide or its toxic derivatives or hydrogen sulfide is used.

Diffuse pleural fibrosis

Any process entailing substantial exposure to asbestos dust.

* See section 48(2)

        [Schedule 3 amended: No. 44 of 1985 s. 43; No. 48 of 1993 s. 42; (see Orders made under s. 45 5 ); No. 31 of 2011 s. 124.]