Occupational diseases | Employment involving exposure to risk |
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1. Pneumoconioses caused by sclerogenic mineral dust (silicosis, anthraco-silicosis, asbestoses) and silico-tuberculosis, provide that silicosis is an essential factor causing the resultant incapacity, impairment or death. | Employment involving exposure to sclerogenic mineral dust. |
2. Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by hard-metal dust. | Employment involving exposure to hard-metal dust. |
3. Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by cotton dust (byssinosis), or flax, hemp or sisal dust. | Employment involving exposure to cotton dust, or flax, hemp or sisal dust. |
4. Occupation asthma caused by sensitising agents or irritants. | Employment involving asthmagenic agents. |
5. Extrinsic allergic alveolitis and its sequelae. | Employment involving exposure to the inhalation of organic dusts. |
6. Diseases caused by beryllium or its toxic compounds. | Employment involving exposure to beryllium or its toxic compounds. |
7. Diseases caused by cadmium or its toxic compounds. | Employment involving exposure to cadmium or its toxic compounds. |
8. Diseases caused by phosphorus or its toxic compounds. | Employment involving exposure to phosphorus or its toxic compounds. |
9. Diseases caused by chromium or its toxic compounds. | Employment involving exposure to chromium or its toxic compounds. |
10. Diseases caused by manganese or its toxic compounds. | Employment involving exposure to manganese or its toxic compounds. |
11. Diseases caused by arsenic or its toxic compounds. | Employment involving exposure to arsenic or its toxic compounds. |
12. Diseases caused by mercury or its toxic compounds. | Employment involving exposure to mercury or its toxic compounds. |
13. Diseases caused by lead or its toxic compounds. | Employment involving exposure to lead or its toxic compounds. |
14. Diseases caused by fluorine or its toxic compounds. | Employment involving exposure to fluorine or its toxic compounds. |
15. Diseases caused by carbon disulphide. | Employment involving exposure to carbon disulphide. |
16. Diseases caused by toxic halogen derivatives of aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons. | Employment involving exposure to toxic halogen derivatives of aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons. |
17. Diseases caused by benzene or its toxic homologues. | Employment involving exposure to benzene or its toxic homologues. |
18. Diseases caused by toxic nitro- and amino-derivatives of benzene or its homologues. | Employment involving exposure to toxic nitro- and amino-derivatives of benzene or its homologues. |
19. Diseases caused by nitroglycerin or other nitric acid esters. | Employment involving exposure to nitroglycerin or other nitric acid esters. |
20. Diseases caused by alcohols, glycols or ketones. | Employment involving exposure to alcohols, glycols or ketones. |
21. Diseases caused by asphyxiants: carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide or its toxic derivatives, hydrogen sulphide. | Employment involving exposure to asphyxiants: carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide or its toxic derivatives, hydrogen sulphide. |
22. Diseases caused by vibration (disorders of muscles, tendons, bones, joints, peripheral blood vessels or peripheral nerves). | Employment involving exposure to vibration. |
23. Diseases caused by work in compressed air. | Employment involving exposure to compressed air. |
24. Diseases caused by ionising radiation. | Employment involving exposure to the action of ionising radiation. |
25. Skin diseases caused by physical, chemical or biological agents not included under other items. | Employment involving exposure to the risk concerned |
26. Primary epitheliomatous cancer of the skin caused by tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, anthracene, or the compounds, products or residue of these substances. | Employment involving exposure to tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, anthracene, or the compounds, products or residue of these substances. |
27. Lung cancer or mesotheliomas caused by asbestos. | Employment involving exposure to asbestos. |
28. Occupational infectious or parasitic diseases. | Employment carrying a particular risk of contamination including: (a) Health or Laboratory work; (b) Veterinary work; (c) Work handling animals, animal carcasses, part of such carcasses, or merchandise which may have been contaminated by animals, animal carcasses, or parts of such carcasses. |