Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Deemed Diseases) Notice 2017

Occupations involving work with animals or animal carcasses (including, but not limited to, animal handlers, pelt handlers, abattoir workers and meat inspectors).

Occupations involving work with animals or animal carcasses (including, but not limited to, veterinarians, farmers or farm workers, abattoir workers and laboratory workers).

Occupations involving contact with human waste (including, but not limited to, child care workers, carers of intellectually disabled persons, workers in rural or remote Indigenous communities, sewage workers and plumbers).

Occupations involving contact with human bodily secretions (including, but not limited to, health care workers, embalmers, persons who handle body substances, clinical laboratory staff, workers in long-term correctional facilities, members of the police service, members of the armed forces and emergency services workers).

Health care workers or laboratory workers if the worker has become HIV positive after a needle-stick injury that occurs while at work.

Occupations involving –

(a) work with animals or animal carcasses (including, but not limited to, farmers or farm workers, abattoir workers, forestry workers, hunters, veterinarians and livestock transport operators); or

(b) work with animal or human waste (including, but not limited to, plumbers).

Occupations involving work with sheep, goats or sheep or goat carcasses (including, but not limited to, sheep farmers or farm workers, goat farmers or farm workers, abattoir workers and meat inspectors).

Occupations involving contact with animals or animal parts in a rural setting (including, but not limited to, abattoir workers, stock workers, livestock transport operators, shearers, hide processors, farmers and veterinarians).

Occupations –

(a) involving contact with persons or animals in situations where the prevalence of tuberculosis is likely to be significantly higher than the general community (including, but not limited to, health workers, clinical laboratory workers, funeral parlour staff, farmers and veterinarians); or

(b) that have resulted in the worker being diagnosed with silicosis, if that occupation is presumed under the Act to have contributed to the silicosis.

Exposure to ionizing radiation.

Exposure to formaldehyde or wood dust.

Exposure to ionizing radiation.

Exposure to ionizing radiation.

Exposure to ionizing radiation.

Exposure to –

(a) hepatitis B or hepatitis C; or

(b) vinyl chloride monomer.

Exposure to ionizing radiation, leather dust, wood dust or nickel.

Exposure to arsenic, asbestos, beryllium, bis(chloromethyl) ether, cadmium, chromium VI, diesel engine exhaust, environmental tobacco smoke, ionizing radiation, nickel, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (including coal gasification, coal tar pitch and coke production), Radon-222 and its decay products, silica dust (crystalline) or soot (chimney sweeping).

Exposure to ionizing radiation.

Exposure to solar radiation or polychlorinated biphenyls.

Exposure to ionizing radiation, solar radiation or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (including topical exposure from coal tar distillation, coal tar pitch, mineral oils whether untreated or mildly treated, shale oils or soot (chimney sweeping)).

Exposure to ionizing radiation.

Exposure to ionizing radiation or tricholoroethylene.

Exposure to –

(a) 2-naphthylamine, benzidine, cyclophosphamide, ionizing radiation or ortho-toluidine; or

(b) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons during aluminium production.

Exposure to ionizing radiation.

Exposure to ionizing radiation.

Exposure to –

(a) benzene, butadiene, cyclophosphamide, formaldehyde or ionizing radiation.

(b) hepatitis C.

Exposure to ionizing radiation.

Exposure to manganese.

Exposure to –

(a) metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic; or

(b) organic solvents such as n-hexane, carbon disulphide and trichloroethylene; or

(c) pesticides such as organophosphates; or

(d) acrylamide.

Exposure to sensitising agents or irritants (including, but not limited to, arthropods or mites, biological enzymes, bioaerosols, products derived from fish/shellfish/animal, flour, sensitising foods, flowers, latex, wood dusts, soldering, reactive dyes, anhydrides, acrylates, epoxy, ethylene oxide, aldehydes, pesticides, amines, ammonia, industrial cleaning agents, acids, isocyanates, other reactive chemicals, sensitising metals and sensitising drugs).

Exposure to coal.

Exposure to known causes of pneumoconiosis (including, but not limited to, beryllium, tin, iron oxide, barium, aluminium, cobalt and tungsten).

Exposure to silica.

Exposure to cotton, flax, hemp or sisal dust.

Exposure to damp material of biological origin (including, but not limited to, mouldy hay, straw, grain and feathers).

Exposure to agents known to cause hepatitis (including, but not limited to, organic solvents).

Occupations that have resulted in the worker being diagnosed with hepatitis B, or hepatitis C, if that occupation is presumed under the Act to have contributed to the hepatitis.

Occupations that have resulted in the worker being diagnosed with hepatitis B, or hepatitis C, if that occupation is presumed under the Act to have contributed to the hepatitis.

Exposure to sensitising agents or irritants (including, but not limited to, alcohols, cutting fluids, degreasers, disinfectants, petroleum products, soaps and cleaners, solvents, wet work, chromates, cobalt, cosmetics and fragrances, epoxy resin, latex, nickel, plants, preservatives, resins and acrylics).

Exposure to para-tertiary-butylphenol, para-tertiary-butylcatechol, para-amylphenol, hydroquinone or the monobenzyl, or monobutyl, ether of hydroquinone.

Occupations involving vibrations from powered tools or equipment.

Occupations involving prolonged external friction, pressure or repetitive motion at, or about, the elbow or knee.

Exposure to acrylonitrile, alcohols, antimony, arsenic, benzene, beryllium, cadmium, carbon disulphide, chromium, copper, fluorine, alcohol, glycols, ketones, hexane, lead, manganese, mercury, mineral acids, nitroglycerine (or other nitric acid esters), osmium, oxides of nitrogen, ozone, pesticides (including, but not limited to, organophosphate and organochlorine compounds, herbicides, and related compounds), pharmaceutical agents, phosgene, phosphorus, selenium, styrene, thallium, tin, toluene, vanadium, zinc, chemical asphyxiants (including, but not limited to, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulphide and methylene chloride), irritants (including, but not limited to, benzoquinone and other corneal irritants), toxic halogen derivatives, aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons or toxic nitro-derivatives and amino-derivatives of benzene (and other less common substances not specifically included here).

Occupations involving working in or about an active mining area.

Exposure to increased or reduced atmospheric pressure (including, but not limited to, working underground or underwater and working at high altitude).