Amendment of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations2

In Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19863 (list of prescribed diseases and the occupations for which they are prescribed)—

a

in the second column of the entry relating to prescribed disease B154 for “Employment as a healthcare worker having contact” substitute “Contact”;

b

for the second column of the entry relating to prescribed disease D6 substitute—

a

Attendance for work at a workplace where wooden goods or products made wholly or partially of wood are manufactured or repaired; or

b

attendance for work in a building used for the manufacture of footwear or components of footwear made wholly or partly of leather or fibre board; or

c

attendance for work at a place used wholly or mainly for the repair of footwear made wholly or partly of leather or fibre board; or

d

exposure to wood dust in the course of the machine processing of wood.