Regulations 2 and 4

SCHEDULE 1

PART ILIST OF PRESCRIBED DISEASES AND THE OCCUPATIONS FOR WHICH THEY ARE PRESCRIBED

Prescribed disease or injury Occupation
A. Conditions due to physical agentsAny occupation involving:

[F1A1. Leukaemia (other than chronic lymphatic leukaemia) or cancer of the bone, female breast, testis or thyroid.]

[F1 Exposure to electro-magnetic radiations (other than radiant heat) or to ionising particles where the dose is sufficient to double the risk of the occurrence of the condition.]

A2. F2... Cataract.

[F3Frequent or prolonged exposure to radiation from red-hot or white-hot material.]

A3. Dysbarism, including decompression sickness, barotrauma and osteonecrosis.Subjection to compressed or rarefied air or other respirable gases or gaseous mixtures.

A4. [F4Task-specific focal dystonia of the hand or forearm.]

[F4Prolonged periods of handwriting, typing or other repetitive movements of the fingers, hand or arm.]

A5. Subcutaneous cellulitis of the handF5....

Manual labour causing severe or prolonged friction or pressure on the hand.

A6. Bursitis or subcutaneous cellulitis arising at or about the knee due to severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about the kneeF6....

Manual labour causing severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about the knee.

A7. Bursitis or subcutaneous cellulitis arising at or about the elbow due to severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about the elbowF7....

Manual labour causing severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about the elbow.
A8. Traumatic inflammation of the tendons of the hand or forearm, or of the associated tendon sheaths.Manual labour, or frequent or repeated movements of the hand or wrist.

A9. F8...

F8. . .

[F9A10. Sensorineural hearing loss amounting to at least 50 dB in each ear, being the average of hearing losses at 1, 2 and 3 kHz frequencies, and being due in the case of at least one ear to occupational noise (occupational deafness).]

Regulation 3 (S.I. 2003/2190) amendments shall not apply to a period of assessment which relates to a claim which is made before the commencement date (22nd September 2003).

[F10Any occupation involving:

The use of, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of the use of, a—

(a) band saw, circular saw or cutting disc to cut metal in the metal founding or forging industries, circular saw to cut products in the manufacture of steel, powered (other than hand powered) grinding tool on metal (other than sheet metal or plate metal), pneumatic percussive tool on metal, pressurised air arc tool to gouge metal, burner or torch to cut or dress steel based products, skid transfer bank, knock out and shake out grid in a foundry, machine (other than a power press machine) to forge metal including a machine used to drop stamp metal by means of closed or open dies or drop hammers, machine to cut or shape or clean metal nails, or plasma spray gun to spray molten metal;

(b) pneumatic percussive tool:- to drill rock in a quarry, on stone in a quarry works, underground, for mining coal, for sinking a shaft, or for tunnelling in civil engineering works;

(c) vibrating metal moulding box in the concrete products industry, or circular saw to cut concrete masonry blocks;

(d) machine in the manufacture of textiles for:- weaving man-made or natural fibres (including mineral fibres), high speed false twisting of fibres, or the mechanical cleaning of bobbins;

(e) multi-cutter moulding machine on wood, planing machine on wood, automatic or semi-automatic lathe on wood, multiple cross-cut machine on wood, automatic shaping machine on wood, double-end tenoning machine on wood, vertical spindle moulding machine (including a high speed routing machine) on wood, edge banding machine on wood, bandsawing machine (with a blade width of not less than 75 millimetres) on wood, circular sawing machine on wood including one operated by moving the blade towards the material being cut, or chain saw on wood;

(f) jet of water (or a mixture of water and abrasive material) at a pressure above 680 bar, or jet channelling process to burn stone in a quarry;

(g) machine in a ship’s engine room, or gas turbine for:- performance testing on a test bed, installation testing of a replacement engine in an aircraft, or acceptance testing of an Armed Service fixed wing combat aircraft;

(h) machine in the manufacture of glass containers or hollow ware for:- automatic moulding, automatic blow moulding, or automatic glass pressing and forming;

(i) spinning machine using compressed air to produce glass wool or mineral wool;

(j) continuous glass toughening furnace;

(k) firearm by a police firearms training officer; or

(l) shot-blaster to carry abrasives in air for cleaning.]

[F10(a) [F11the use of powered (but not hand powered) grinding tools [F12metal (other than sheet metal or plate metal)] F13... or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of those tools whilst they are being so used; or]

(b) [F11the use of pneumatic percussive tools on metal, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of those tools whilst they are being so used; or]

(c) [F11the use of pneumatic percussive tools for drilling rock in quarries or underground or in mining coal, [F14or in sinking shafts or for tunnelling in civil engineering works] or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of those tools whilst they are being so used; or]

([F15ca) the use of pneumatic percussive tools on stone in quarry works, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of those tools whilst they are being so used; or]

(d) [F11work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of plant (excluding power press plant) engaged in the forging (including drop stamping) of metal by means of closed or open dies or drop hammers; or]

(e) [F11work in textile manufacturing where the work is undertaken wholly or mainly in rooms or sheds in which there are machines engaged in weaving man-made or natural (including mineral) fibres or in the high speed false twisting of fibres; or]

(f) the use of, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of, machines engaged in cutting, shaping or cleaning metal nails; or

(g) the use of, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of, plasma spray guns engaged in the deposition of metal; or

(h) the use of, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of, any of the following machines engaged in the working of wood or material composed partly of wood, that is to say: multi-cutter moulding machines, planing machines, automatic or semi-automatic lathes, multiple cross-cut machines, automatic shaping machines, double-end tenoning machines, vertical spindle moulding machines (including high speed routing machines), edge banding machines, bandsawing machines with a blade width of not less than 75 millimetres and circular sawing machines in the operation of which the blade is moved towards the material being cut; or

(i) the use of chain saws in forestry[F16; or

(j) air arc gouging or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of air arc gouging; or

(k) the use of band saws, circular saws or cutting discs for cutting metal in the metal founding or forging industries, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of those tools whilst they are being so used; or

(l) the use of circular saws for cutting products in the manufacture of steel, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of those tools whilst they are being so used; or

(m) the use of burners or torches for cutting or dressing steel based products, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of those tools whilst they are being so used; or

(n) work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of skid transfer banks; or

(o) work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of knock out and shake out grids in foundries; or

(p) mechanical bobbin cleaning or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of mechanical bobbin cleaning; or

q) the use of, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of, vibrating metal moulding boxes in the concrete products industry; or

(r) the use of, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of, high pressure jets of water or a mixture of water and abrasive material in the water jetting industry (including work under water); or

(s) work in ships' engine rooms; or

(t) the use of circular saws for cutting concrete masonry blocks during manufacture, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of those tools whilst they are being so used; or

(u) burning stone in quarries by jet channelling processes, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of such processes; or

(v) work on gas turbines in connection with—

(i)

performance testing on test bed;

(ii)

installation testing of replacement engines in aircraft;

(iii)

acceptance testing of Armed Service fixed wing combat planes; or

(w) the use of, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of—

(i)

machines for automatic moulding, automatic blow moulding or automatic glass pressing and forming machines used in the manufacture of glass containers or hollow ware;

(ii)

spinning machines using compressed air to produce glass wool or mineral wool;

(iii)

continuous glass toughening furnaces.]]

A11. Episodic blanching, occurring throughout the year, affecting the middle or proximal phalanges or in the case of a thumb the proximal phalanx, of—

(a) [F17Intense blanching of the skin, with a sharp demarcation line between affected and non-affected skin, where the blanching is cold-induced, episodic, occurs throughout the year and affects the skin of the distal with the middle and proximal phalanges, or distal with the middle phalanx (or in the case of a thumb the distal with the proximal phalanx), of—

(i)

in the case of a person with 5 fingers (including thumb) on one hand, any 3 of those fingers, or

(ii)

in the case of a person with only 4 such fingers, any 2 of those fingers, or

(iii)

in the case of a person with less than 4 such fingers, any one of them or, as the case may be, the one remaining finger,

where none of the person’s fingers was subject to any degree of cold-induced, episodic blanching of the skin prior to the person’s employment in an occupation described in the second column in relation to this paragraph, or

(b) significant, demonstrable reduction in both sensory perception and manipulative dexterity with continuous numbness or continuous tingling all present at the same time in the distal phalanx of any finger (including thumb) where none of the person’s fingers was subject to any degree of reduction in sensory perception, manipulative dexterity, numbness or tingling prior to the person’s employment in an occupation described in the second column in relation to this paragraph,

where the symptoms in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) were caused by vibration.

(a)[F17in the case of a person with 5 fingers (including thumb) on one hand, any 3 of those fingers, or

(b) in the case of a person with only 4 such fingers, any 2 of those fingers, or

(c) in the case of a person with less than 4 such fingers, any one of those fingers or, as the case may be, the one remaining finger (vibration white finger).]]

(a) the use of hand-held chain saws [F18in forestry] [F18on wood]; or

(b) the use of hand-held rotary tools in grinding or in the sanding or polishing of metal, or the holding of material being ground, or metal being sanded or polished, by rotary tools; or

Any occupation involving:

(c) the use of hand-held percussive metal-working tools, or the holding of metal being worked upon by percussive tools, in riveting, caulking, chipping, hammering, fettling or swaging; or

(d) the use of hand-held powered percussive drills or hand-held powered percussive hammers in mining, quarrying, demolition, or on roads or footpaths, including road construction; or

(e) the holding of material being worked upon by pounding machines in shoe manufacture.

[F19A12. Carpal tunnel syndrome.]

(a) [F20The use, at the time the symptoms first develop, of hand-held powered tools whose internal parts vibrate so as to transmit that vibration to the hand, but excluding those tools which are solely powered by hand; or

(b) repeated palmar flexion and dorsiflexion of the wrist for at least 20 hours per week for a period or periods amounting in aggregate to at least 12 months in the 24 months prior to the onset of symptoms, where “repeated” means once or more often in every 30 seconds.]

[F20[F19The use of hand-held powered tools whose internal parts vibrate so as to transmit that vibration to the hand, but excluding those which are solely powered by hand.]]

[F21A13. Osteoarthritis of the hip.]

[F21Work in agriculture as a farmer or farm worker for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, 10 years or more.]

[F22A14. Osteoarthritis of the knee.]

[F22Work underground in a coal mine for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, at least 10 years in any one or more of the following occupations:

(a) before 1st January 1986 as a coal miner; or

(b) on or after 1st January 1986 as a—

(i)

face worker working on a non-mechanised coal face;

(ii)

development worker;

(iii)

face-salvage worker;

(iv)

conveyor belt cleaner; or

(v)

conveyor belt attendant.

“A non-mechanised coal face” means a coal face without either powered roof supports or a power loader machine which simultaneously cuts and loads the coal or without both.]

[F23Work wholly or mainly fitting or laying carpets or floors (other than concrete floors) for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, 20 years or more.]

B. Conditions due to biological agents

[F24B1. Anthrax.]

(a) [F24 Contact with anthrax spores, including contact with animals infected by anthrax; or

(b) handling, loading, unloading or transport of animals of a type susceptible to infection with anthrax or of the products or residues of such animals.]

B2. Glanders.Contact with equine animals or their carcases.
B3. Infection by leptospira.

(a) Work in places which are, or are liable to be, infested by rats, field mice or voles, or other small mammals; or

(b) work at dog kennels or the care or handling of dogs; or

(c) contact with bovine animals or their meat products or pigs or their meat products.

[F25B4. Ankylostomiasis.]

[F25Contact with a source of ankylostomiasis.]

B5. Tuberculosis. Contact with a source of tuberculous infection.
B6. Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (including farmer's lung).

Exposure to moulds or fungal spores or heterologous proteins by reason of employment in:—

(a) agriculture, horticulture, forestry, cultivation of edible fungi or malt-working; or

(b) loading or unloading or handling in storage mouldy vegetable matter or edible fungi; or

(c) caring for or handling birds; or

(d) handling bagasse [F26or

(e) work involving exposure to metalworking fluid mists.]

B7. Infection by organisms of the genus brucella.

Contact with—

(a) animals infected by brucella, or their carcases or parts thereof, or their untreated products; or

(b) laboratory specimens or vaccines of, or containing, brucella.

[F27B8A. Infection by hepatitis A virus.]

[F27Contact with raw sewage.]

[F27B8B. Infection by hepatitis B or C virus.]

[F27Contact with—]

[F27(a) human blood or human blood products; or]

[F27(b) any other source of hepatitis B or C virus.]

B9. Infection by Streptococcus suis.Contact with pigs infected by Streptococcus suis, or with the carcases, products or residues of pigs so infected.

[F28B10.

(a) Avian chlamydiosis]

[F28Contact with birds infected with chlamydia psittaci, or with the remains or untreated products of such birds.]

[F28B10.

(b) Ovine chlamydiosis]

[F28Contact with sheep infected with chlamydia psittaci, or with the remains or untreated products of such sheep.]

[F28B11. Q fever.]

[F28Contact with animals, their remains or their untreated products.]

[F29B12. Orf.]

[F29Contact with sheep, goats or with the carcasses of sheep or goats.]

[F29B13. Hydatidosis.]

[F29Contact with dogs.]

[F30B14. Lyme disease.]

[F30Exposure to deer or other mammals of a type liable to harbour ticks harbouring Borrelia bacteria.]

[F30B15. Anaphylaxis.]

[F30Employment as a healthcare worker having contact with products made with natural rubber latex.]

C. Conditions due to chemical agents

[F31C1.

(a) Anaemia with a haemoglobin concentration of 9g/dL or less, and a blood film showing punctate basophilia;

(b) peripheral neuropathy;

(c) central nervous system toxicity.]

The use or handling of, or exposure to the fumes, dust or vapour of, lead or a compound of lead, or a substance containing lead.

[F32C2. Central nervous system toxicity characterised by parkinsonism.]

The use or handling of, or exposure to the fumes, dust or vapour of, manganese or a compound of manganese, or a substance containing manganese.

[F33C3.

(a) Phossy Jaw.

(b) Peripheral polyneuropathy or peripheral polyneuropathy with pyramidal involvement of the central nervous system, caused by organic compounds of phosphorus which inhibit the enzyme neuropathy target esterase.]

[F33Work involving the use or handling of, or exposure to, white phosphorus.

Work involving the use or handling of, or exposure to, organic compounds of phosphorus.]

[F34C4. Primary carcinoma of the bronchus or lung.]

[F34Exposure to the fumes, dust or vapour of arsenic, a compound of arsenic or a substance containing arsenic.]

[F35C5A. Central nervous system toxicity characterised by tremor and neuropsychiatric disease.]

[F35Exposure to mercury or inorganic compounds of mercury for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, 10 years or more.]

[F35C5B. Central nervous system toxicity characterised by combined cerebellar and cortical degeneration.]

[F35Exposure to methylmercury.]

[F36C6. Peripheral neuropathy]

[F36The use or handling of, or exposure to, carbon disulphide (also called carbon disulfide).]

[F37C7. Acute non-lymphatic leukaemia.]

[F37Exposure to benzene.]

C8. F38...

F38...

C9. F39...

F39...

C10. F40...

F40...

C11. F41...

F41...

[F42C12.

(a) Peripheral neuropathy;

(b) central nervous system toxicity.]

[F42Exposure to methyl bromide (also called bromomethane).]

[F43C13. Cirrhosis of the liver.]

[F43Exposure to chlorinated naphthalenes.]

C14. F44...

F44...

C15. F45...

F45...

[F46C16.

(a) Neurotoxicity;

(b) cardiotoxicity.]

[F46Exposure to the dust of gonioma kamassi.]

[F47C17. Chronic beryllium disease.]

[F47Inhalation of beryllium or a beryllium compound.]

[F48C18. Emphysema.]

[F48Inhalation of cadmium fumes for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, 20 years or more.]

[F49C19.

(a) Peripheral neuropathy; monomer.

(b) central nervous system toxicity.]

[F49Exposure to acrylamide.]

C20. Dystrophy of the cornea

[F50Exposure to quinone or hydroquinone.]

[F51C21. Primary carcinoma of the skin.]

[F51Exposure to arsenic or arsenic compounds, tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil (including paraffin) or soot.]

[F52C22.

(a) Primary carcinoma of the mucous membrane of the nose or paranasal sinuses;

(b) primary carcinoma of the bronchus or lung.]

[F52Work before 1950 in the refining of nickel involving exposure to oxides, sulphides or water-soluble compounds of nickel.]

[F53C23. Primary neoplasm of the epithelial lining of the urinary tract.]

[F53(a) The manufacture of 1-naphthylamine, 2-naphthylamine, benzidine, auramine, magenta or 4-aminobiphenyl (also called biphenyl-4-ylamine);

(b) work in the process of manufacturing methylene-bis-orthochloroaniline (also called MbOCA) for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, 12 months or more;

(c) exposure to 2-naphthylamine, benzidine, 4-aminobiphenyl (also called biphenyl-4-ylamine) or salts of those compounds otherwise than in the manufacture of those compounds;

(d) exposure to orthotoluidine, 4-chloro-2-methylaniline or salts of those compounds; or

(e) exposure for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, 5 years or more, to coal tar pitch volatiles produced in aluminium smelting involving the Soderberg process (that is to say, the method of producing aluminium by electrolysis in which the anode consists of a paste of petroleum coke and mineral oil which is baked in situ).]

C24. (a) [F54Angiosarcoma of the liver; or

(b) osteolysis of the terminal phalanges of the fingers; or

(c) sclerodermatous thickening of the skin of the hand; or

(d) liver fibrosis,

due to exposure to vinyl chloride monomer.

[F54Exposure to vinyl chloride monomer in the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride.

24A. Raynaud’s phenomenon due to exposure to vinyl chloride monomer.]

Exposure to vinyl chloride monomer in the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride before 1st January 1984.]

C25. [F55Vitiligo.][F55The use or handling of, or exposure to, paratertiary-butylphenol (also called 4-tert-butylphenol), paratertiary-butylcatechol (also called 4-tert-butylcatechol), para-amylphenol (also called p-pentyl phenol isomers), hydroquinone, monobenzyl ether of hydroquinone (also called 4-benzyloxyphenol) or mono-butyl ether of hydroquinone (also called 4-butoxyphenol). ]

[F56C26.

[F57(a) Liver toxicity;

(b) kidney toxicity.]]

[F57The use or handling of, or exposure to, carbon tetrachloride (also called tetrachloromethane).]

[F58C27. [F59Liver toxicity.]]

[F59The use or handling of, or exposure to, trichloromethane (also called chloroform).]

F60...

F60...

[F61C29. [F62Peripheral neuropathy.]]

[F62The use or handling of, or exposure to, n-hexane or n-butyl methyl ketone.]

[F63C30. (a) [F64Dermatitis;

(b) ulceration of the mucous membrane or the epidermis.]

[F64The use or handling of, or exposure to, chromic acid, chromates or dichromates.]]

[F65C31. Bronchiolitis obliterans.

[F65The use or handling of, or exposure to, diacetyl (also called butanedione or 2,3-butanedione) in the manufacture of—

(a)

diacetyl; or

(b)

food flavouring containing diacetyl; or

(c)

food to which food flavouring containing diacetyl is added.

C32.Carcinoma of the nasal cavity or associated air sinuses (nasal carcinoma).]

(a)

The manufacture of inorganic chromates; or

(b)

work in hexavalent chrome plating.]

D. Miscellaneous Conditions
D1. Pneumoconiosis.

Any occupation—

(a) set out in Part II of this Schedule;

(b) specified in regulation 2(b)(ii).

D2. Byssinosis.

Any occupation involving:

Work in any room where any process up to and including the weaving process is performed in a factory in which the spinning or manipulation of raw or waste cotton or of flax, or the weaving of cotton or flax, is carried on.

D3. Diffuse mesothelioma (primary neoplasm of the mesothelium of the pleura or of the pericardium or of the peritoneum).

[F66Exposure to asbestos, asbestos dust or any admixture of asbestos at a level above that commonly found in the environment at large.]

D4. [F67Allergic rhinitis which is due to exposure to any of the following agents—

(a) isocyanates;

(b) platinum salts;

(c) fumes or dusts arising from the manufacture, transport or use of hardening agents (including epoxy resin curing agents) based on phthalic anhydride, tetrachlorophthalic anhydride, trimellitic anhydride or triethylenetetramine;

(d) fumes arising from the use of rosin as a soldering flux;

(e) proteolytic enzymes;

(f) animals including insects and other arthropods used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories;

(g) dusts arising from the sowing, cultivation, harvesting, drying, handling, milling, transport or storage of barley, oats, rye, wheat or maize, or the handling, milling, transport or storage of meal or flour made therefrom;

(h) antibiotics;

(i) cimetidine;

(j) wood dust;

(k) ispaghula;

(l) castor bean dust;

(m) ipecacuanha;

(n) azodicarbonamide;

(o) animals including insects and other arthropods or their larval forms, used for the purposes of pest control or fruit cultivation, or the larval forms of animals used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories;

(p) glutaraldehyde;

(q) persulphate salts or henna;

(r) crustaceans or fish or products arising from these in the food processing industry;

(s) reactive dyes;

(t) soya bean;

(u) tea dust;

(v) green coffee bean dust;

(w) fumes from stainless steel welding.]

(x)[F68 products made with natural rubber latex.]

[F67Exposure to any of the agents set out in column 1 of this paragraph.]

D5.

Non-infective dermatitis of external origin (F69... excluding dermatitis due to ionising particles or electro-magnetic radiations other than radiant heat).

Exposure to dust, liquid or vapour or any other external agent

[F70except chromic acid, chromates or bi-chromates,] capable of irritating the skin (including friction or heat but excluding ionising particles or electro-magnetic radiations other than radiant heat).

D6. Carcinoma of the nasal cavity or associated air sinuses (nasal carcinoma).

(a) Attendance for work in or about a building where wooden goods 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.

D7. Asthma which is due to exposure to any of the following agents:—

(a) isocyanates;

(b) platinum salts;

(c) fumes or dusts arising from the manufacture, transport or use of hardening agents (including epoxy resin curing agents) based on phthalic anhydride, tetrachlorophthalic anhydride, trimellitic anhydride or triethylenetetramine;

(d) fumes arising from the use of rosin as a soldering flux;

(e) proteolytic enzymes;

(f) [F71animals including insects and other arthropods used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories]

(g) dusts arising from the sowing, cultivation, harvesting, drying, handling, milling, transport or storage of barley, oats, rye, wheat or maize, or the handling, milling, transport or storage of meal or flour made therefrom

[F72(h) antibiotics;

(i) cimetidine;

(j) wood dust;

(k) ispaghula;

(l) castor bean dust;

(m) ipecacuanha;

(n) azodicarbonamide]

[F73(o) animals including insects and other arthropods or their larval forms, used for the purposes of pest control or fruit cultivation, or the larval forms of animals used for the purposes of research, education or in laboratories;]

(p) [F73glutaraldehyde;]

(q) [F73persulphate salts or henna;]

(r) [F73crustaceans or fish or products arising from these in the food processing industry;]

(s) [F73reactive dyes;]

(t) [F73soya bean;]

(u) [F73tea dust;]

(v) [F73green coffee bean dust;]

(w) [F73fumes from stainless steel welding;]

[F74(wa) products made with natural rubber latex;]

[F73(x) any other sensitising agent.]

(occupational asthma).

Any occupation involving:

Exposure to any of the agents set out in column 1 of this paragraph.

D8. [F75Primary carcinoma of the lung where there is accompanying evidence of asbestosis.

(a) [F75The working or handling of asbestos or any admixture of asbestos; or

(b) the manufacture or repair of asbestos textiles or other articles containing or composed of asbestos; or

(c) the cleaning of any machinery or plant used in any of the foregoing operations and of any chambers, fixtures and appliances for the collection of asbestos dust; or

(d) substantial exposure to the dust arising from any of the foregoing operations.

D8A. Primary carcinoma of the lung.]

Exposure to asbestos in the course of—

(a) the manufacture of asbestos textiles; or

(b) spraying asbestos; or

(c) asbestos insulation work; or

(d) applying or removing materials containing asbestos in the course of shipbuilding,

where all or any of the exposure occurs before 1st January 1975, for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, five years or more, or otherwise, for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, ten years or more.]

D9.[F76 Unilateral or bilateral diffuse pleural thickening with obliteration of the costophrenic angle.]

(a) The working or handling of asbestos or any admixture of asbestos; or

(b) the manufacture or repair of asbestos textiles or other articles containing or composed of asbestos; or

(c) the cleaning of any machinery or plant used in any of the foregoing operations and of any chambers, fixtures and appliances for the collection of asbestos dust; or

Any occupation involving:

(d) substantial exposure to the dust arising from any of the foregoing operations.

[F77D10. [F78Primary carcinoma of the lung]]

(a) [F79Work underground in a tin mine; or ]

(b) [F79exposure to bis(chloromethyl)ether produced during the manufacture of chloromethyl methyl ether; or]

(c) [F79exposure to zinc chromate calcium chromate or strontium chromate in their pure forms[F80; or]

(d) employment wholly or mainly as a coke oven worker:

(i)

for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, 15 years or more; or

(ii)

in top oven work, for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, 5 years or more; or

(iii)

in a combination of top oven work and other coke oven work for a total aggregate period of 15 years or more where one year working in top oven work is treated as equivalent to 3 years in other coke oven work.]

D11.[F81Primary carcinoma of the lung where there is accompanying evidence of silicosis.]

[F81Exposure to silica dust in the course of—

(a) the manufacture of glass or pottery;

(b) tunnelling in or quarrying sandstone or granite;

(c) mining metal ores;

(d) slate quarrying or the manufacture of artefacts from slate;

(e) mining clay;

(f) using siliceous materials as abrasives;

(g) cutting stone;

(h) stonemasonry; or

(i) work in a foundry.]

[F82D12  Except in the circumstances specified in regulation 2(d)—

(a)chronic bronchitis; or

(b)emphysema; or

(c)both,

where there is F83... evidence of a forced expiratory volume in one second (measured from the position of maximum inspiration with the claimant making maximum effort) which is—

(i)[F84at least one litre below the appropriate mean value predicted, obtained from the following prediction formulae which give the mean values predicted in litres—

  • For a man, where the measurement is made without back-extrapolation, (3.62 × Height in metres) − (0.031 × Age in years) − 1.41; or, where the measurement is made with back-extrapolation, (3.71 × Height in metres) − (0.032 × Age in years) − 1.44;

  • For a woman, where the measurement is made without back-extrapolation, (3.29 × Height in metres) − (0.029 × Age in years) − 1.42; or, where the measurement is made with back-extrapolation, (3.37 × Height in metres) − (0.030 × Age in years) − 1.46; or]

(ii)less than one litre.]

at least one litre below the appropriate mean value predicted, obtained from the following prediction formulae which give the mean values predicted in litres—

[F85Exposure to coal dust (whether before or after 5th July 1948) by reason of working—

(a)underground in a coal mine for a period or periods amounting in aggregate to at least 20 years;

(b)on the surface of a coal mine as a screen worker for a period or periods amounting in aggregate to at least 40 years before 1st January 1983; or

(c)both underground in a coal mine, and on the surface as a screen worker before 1st January 1983, where 2 years working as a surface screen worker is equivalent to 1 year working underground, amounting in aggregate to at least the equivalent of 20 years underground.

Any such period or periods shall include a period or periods of incapacity while engaged in such an occupation.]

D13. [F86Primary carcinoma of the nasopharynx.]

[F86Exposure to wood dust in the course of the processing of wood or the manufacture or repair of wood products, for a period or periods which amount in aggregate to at least 10]

Textual Amendments

F56Sch. 1 Pt. 1 C26 inserted (4.1.1987) by The Social Security (Industrial Injuries)(Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/2112) regs. 1(1), 3(2), Sch.

F58Sch. 1 Pt. 1 C27 inserted (4.1.1987) by The Social Security (Industrial Injuries)(Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/2112) regs. 1(1), 3(2), Sch.

F61Sch. 1 Pt. 1 C29 inserted (4.1.1987) by The Social Security (Industrial Injuries)(Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/2112) regs. 1(1), 3(2), Sch.

F82Sch. 1 Pt. I, D12 entry substituted (9.4.97) by S.I. 1997/810, reg. 6(5)

Regulations 2, 4, 38 and 40

PART IIOCCUPATIONS FOR WHICH PNEUMOCONIOSIS IS PRESCRIBED

1.  Any occupation involving—

(a)the mining, quarrying or working of silica rock or the working of dried quartzose sand or any dry deposit or dry residue of silica or any dry admixture containing such materials (including any occupation in which any of the aforesaid operations are carried out incidentally to the mining or quarrying of other minerals or to the manufacture of articles containing crushed or ground silica rock);

(b)the handling of any of the materials specified in the foregoing sub-paragraph in or incidental to any of the operations mentioned therein, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such operations.

2.  Any occupation involving the breaking, crushing or grinding of flint or the working or handling of broken, crushed or ground flint or materials containing such flint, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from any of such operations.

3.  Any occupation involving sand blasting by means of compressed air with the use of quartzose sand or crushed silica rock or flint, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from sand and blasting.

4.  Any occupation involving work in a foundry or the performance of, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from, any of the following operations:—

(a)the freeing of steel castings from adherent siliceous substance;

(b)the freeing of metal castings from adherent siliceous substance—

(i)by blasting with an abrasive propelled by compressed air, by steam or by a wheel; or

(ii)by the use of power-driven tools.

5.  Any occupation in or incidental to the manufacture of china or earthenware (including sanitary earthenware, electrical earthenware and earthenware tiles), and any occupation involving substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom.

6.  Any occupation involving the grinding of mineral graphite, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such grinding.

7.  Any occupation involving the dressing of granite or any igneous rock by masons or the crushing of such materials, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such operations.

8.  Any occupation involving the use, or preparation for use, of a grindstone, or substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom.

9.  Any occupation involving—

(a)the working or handling of asbestos or any admixture of asbestos;

(b)the manufacture or repair of asbestos textiles or other articles containing or composed of asbestos;

(c)the cleaning of any machinery or plant used in any foregoing operations and of any chambers, fixtures and appliances for the collection of asbestos dust;

(d)substantial exposure to the dust arising from any of the foregoing operations.

10.  Any occupation involving—

(a)work underground in any mine in which one of the objects of the mining operations is the getting of any mineral;

(b)the working or handling above ground at any coal or tin mine of any minerals extracted therefrom, or any operation incidental thereto;

(c)the trimming of coal in any ship, barge, or lighter, or in any dock or harbour or at any wharf or quay;

(d)the sawing, splitting or dressing of slate, or any operation incidental thereto.

11.  Any occupation in or incidental to the manufacture of carbon electrodes by an industrial undertaking for use in the electrolytic extraction of aluminium from aluminium oxide, and any occupation involving substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom.

12.  Any occupation involving boiler scaling or substantial exposure to the dust arising therefrom.

Regulation 11

SCHEDULE 2MODIFICATIONS OF CHAPTERS IV AND VI OF PART II OF THE ACT IN THEIR APPLICATION TO BENEFIT AND CLAIMS TO WHICH THESE REGULATIONS APPLY

In Chapters IV and VI of Part II of the Act references to accidents shall be construed as references to prescribed diseases and references to the relevant accident shall be construed as references to the relevant disease and references to the date of the relevant accident shall be construed as references to the date of onset of the relevant disease.

Regulation 34

SCHEDULE 3ASSESSMENT OF THE EXTENT OF OCCUPATIONAL DEAFNESS

PART ICLAIMS TO WHICH REGULATION 34(1) APPLIES

[F87Average of hearing losses (dB) due to all causes at 1, 2 and 3 kHz frequencies]Degree of disablement per cent
50–52 dB20
53–57 dB30
58–62 dB40
63–67 dB50
68–72 dB60
73–77 dB70
78–82 dB80
83–87 dB90
88 dB or more100

Textual Amendments

PART IICLAIMS TO WHICH REGULATION 34(2) APPLIES

[F87Average of hearing losses (dB) due to all causes at 1, 2 and 3 kHz frequencies]Degree of disablement per cent
50–53 dB20
54–60 dB30
61–66 dB40
67–72 dB50
73–79 dB60
80–86 dB70
87–95 dB80
96–105 dB90
106 dB or more100

PART IIIFORMULA FOR CALCULATING BINAURAL DISABLEMENT

(Degree of disablement of better ear ×4)+Degree of disablement of worse ear
5

Regulation 43

SCHEDULE 4PRESCRIBED DISEASES AND RELEVANT DATES OF THE PURPOSES OF REGULATION 43

Description of disease or injuryRelevant date
A3. Dysbarism, including decompression sickness, barotrauma and osteonecrosis. Except in the case of a person suffering from decompression sickness employed in any occupation involving subjection to compressed or rarefied air, 3rd October 1983.

A11. Episodic blanching, occurring throughout the year, affecting the middle or proximal phalanges or in the case of a thumb the proximal phalanx, of—

(a) in the case of a person with 5 fingers (including thumb) on one hand, any 3 of those fingers, or

(b) in the case of a person with only 4 such fingers, any 2 of those fingers, or

(c) in the case of a person with less than 4 such fingers, any one of those fingers or, as the case may be, the one remaining finger (vibration white finger).

1st April 1985.
B1. Anthrax.In the case of a person employed in an occupation involving the loading and unloading or transport of animal products or residues, 3rd October 1983
B3. Infection by leptospira.

( a) In the case of a person employed in an occupation in places which are or are liable to be infested by small mammals other than rats, field mice or voles, 3rd October 1983;

( b) in the case of a person employed in an occupation in any other place mentioned in the second column of paragraph B3 of Part I of Schedule 1 above, 7th January 1980.

B5. Tuberculosis.In the case of a person employed in an occupation involving contact with a source of tuberculous infection, not being an employment set out in the second column of paragraph 38 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the old regulations, 3rd October 1983.
B6. Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (including farmer's lung).In the case of a person suffering from extrinsic allergic alveolitis, not being farmer's lung, employed in any occupation set out in the second column of paragraph B6 of Part I of Schedule 1 above, or in the case of a person suffering from farmer's lung, employed in any occupation involving exposure to moulds or fungal spores or heterologous proteins by reason of employment in cultivation of edible fungi or maltworking, or loading or unloading or handling in storage edible fungi or caring for or handling birds, 3rd October 1983.
B7. Infection by organisms of the genus brucella.In the case of a person suffering from infection by organisms of the genus brucella, not being infection by Brucella abortus, or employed in an occupation set out in the second column of paragraph B7 of Part I of Schedule 1 above, not being an occupation set out in the second column of paragraph 46 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the old regulations, 3rd October 1983.
B8. Viral hepatitis.In the case of a person employed in any occupation involving contact with human blood or human blood products, or contact with a source of viral hepatitis, 3rd December 1984.
B9. Infection by Streptococcus suis.3rd October 1983.

B10. [F88(a) Avian chlamydiosis]

[F889th August 1989]

B10. [F88(b) Ovine chlamydiosis]

[F889th August 1989]

B11. [F88Q fever]

[F889th August 1989]

C3. Poisoning by phosphorus or an inorganic compound of phosphorus or poisoning due to the anti-cholinesterase or pseudo anti-cholinesterase action of organic phosphorus compounds. In the case of a person suffering from poisoning by an inorganic compound of phosphorus or poisoning due to the pseudo anti-cholinesterase action of organic phosphorus compounds, 3rd October 1983.
C18. Poisoning by cadmium.In the case of a person employed in an occupation involving exposure to cadmium dust, 3rd October 1983.
C23. Primary neoplasm (including papilloma, carcinoma-in-situ and invasive carcinoma) of the epithelial lining of the urinary tract (renal pelvis, ureter, bladder and urethra).In the case of a person employed in an occupation involving work in a building in which methylene-bis-orthochloroaniline is produced for commercial purposes, 3rd October 1983.

C24. (a) Angiosarcoma of the liver;

(b) osteolysis of the terminal phalanges of the fingers;

(c) non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis.

(a) In the case of a person suffering from angiosarcoma of the liver or osteolysis of the terminal phalanges of the fingers, 21st March 1977;

(b) in the case of a person suffering from non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis, 3rd October 1983.

C25. Occupational vitiligo.

15th December 1980

[F89C26 Damage to the liver or kidneys due to exposure to Carbon Tetrachloride. ]

[F894th January 1988]

[F89C27 Damage to the liver or kidneys due to exposure to Trichloromethane (Chloroform). ]

[F894th January 1988]

C28. [F89Central nervous system dysfunction and associated gastro-intestinal disorders due to exposure to Chloromethane (Methyl Chloride).]

[F894th January 1988]

[F89C29 Peripheral neuropathy due to exposure to n-hexane or methyl n-butyl ketone.]

[F894th January 1988]

D3. Diffuse mesothelioma.In the case of a person suffering from primary neoplasm of the pericardium, 3rd October 1983.
D6. Carcinoma of the nasal cavity or associated air sinuses (nasal carcinoma).In the case of a person employed in an occupation involving attendance for work in or about a building where wooden goods (other than wooden furniture) are manufactured or where wooden goods are repaired, 3rd October 1983.
D7. Occupational asthma.

[F90(a) In the case of a person suffering from asthma due to exposure to any of the following agents:—

(i) isocyanates;

(ii) platinum salts;

(iii) fumes or dusts arising from the manufacture, transport or use of hardening agents (including epoxy resin curing agents) based on phthalic anhydride, tetrachlorophthalic anhydride, trimellitic anhydride or triethylenetetramine;

(iv) fumes arising from the use of rosin as a soldering flux;

(v) proteolytic enzymes;

(vi) animals or insects used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories;

(vii) dusts arising from the sowing, cultivation, harvesting, drying, handling, milling, transport or storage of barley, oats, rye, wheat or maize, or the handling, milling, transport or storage of meal or flour made therefrom,

29th March 1982;

(b) In the case of a person suffering from asthma due to exposure to any of the following agents:—

(i)

animals including insects and other arthropods used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories;

(ii) antibiotics;

(iii) cimetidine;

(iv) wood dust;

(v) ispaghula;

(vi) castor bean dust;

(vii) ipecacuanha;

(viii) azodicarbonamide,

1st September 1986.]

D8. Primary carcinoma of the lung where there is accompanying evidence of one or both of the following:—

(a) asbestosis;

(b) bilateral diffuse pleural thickening.

1st April 1985.
D9. Bilateral diffuse pleural thickening. 1st April 1985.

[F79D10. lung cancer]

[F791st April 1987]

Textual Amendments

Regulation 44

SCHEDULE 5TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS REGARDING DATES OF DEVELOPMENT AND DATES OF ONSET

1.  In this Schedule the “date of development” has the meaning attributed to it by regulations 5 , 6, 7 and 56 of the old regulations.

2.  Where a claim for benefit has been made before 6th April 1983, a date of development shall be determined and regulation 16 of the old regulations shall apply as if the old regulations were still in force.

3.  Where a claim for benefit is made after 5th April 1983 and a date of onset is determined which is before 6th April 1983, regulation 16 of the old regulations shall apply as if the old regulations were still in force.

4.  Where in pursuance of a claim made before 6th April 1983 a date of development has been determined and an award of benefit has been made these regulations shall have effect in relation to that claim and any subsequent claim made by or on behalf of the same person in respect of the same disease (except where under regulation 7 the disease is treated as having been contracted afresh) as if references to the date of onset were references to that date of development.

5.  Subject to paragraph 6, where a claim for injury benefit for a day falling or a period beginning before 6th April 1983 is made after 5th April 1983 and no date of development or date of onset which can be treated as such for the purposes of that claim has already been determined, for the purpose only of determining the date on which the injury benefit period (if any) is to begin, a date of development shall be determined, so however that if it is later than 5th April 1983 no injury benefit period shall begin and injury benefit shall not be payable.

6.  There shall be no entitlement, in the following cases, to benefit for any day which is earlier than the date specified:—

(a)in the case of a person who is or has been suffering from

(i) viral hepatitis 2nd February 1976
(ii) angiosarcoma of the liver21st March 1977
(iii) osteolysis of the terminal phalanges of the fingers 21st March 1977
(iv) carcinoma of the nasal cavity or associated air sinuses (nasal carcinoma) 8th August 1979
(v) occupational vitiligo15th December 1980
[F91“(vi) occupational asthma arising otherwise than as described at (vii) below29th March 1982;]
[F91(vii) Occupational asthma which is due to exposure to antibiotics, cimetidine, wood dust, ispaghula, castor bean dust, ipecacuanha or azodicarbonamide1st September 1986;]

(b)in the case of a person who is or has been suffering from byssinosis but who has not been employed in employed earner's employment in any occupation mentioned in regulation 2(c) of the old regulations for a period or periods (whether before or after 5th July 1948) amounting in the aggregate to 5 years: 6th April 1979;

(c)in the case of a person who is or has been suffering from infection by leptospira but neither is nor has been either incapable of work or suffering from a loss of faculty as a result of infection by—

(i)leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae in the case of a person employed in employed earner's employment in any occupation involving work in places which are, or are liable to be, infested by rats, or

(ii)leptospira canicola in the case of a person employed in employed earner's employment in any occupation involving work at dog kennels or the care or handling of dogs: 7th January 1980.

Textual Amendments

Regulation 45

SCHEDULE 6REGULATIONS REVOKED

CitationStatutory InstrumentExtent of Revocation
The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1980 S.I. 1980/377 The whole of the regulations
The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1980S.I. 1980/1493The whole of the regulations
The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1982S.I. 1982/249The whole of the regulations
The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1982 S.I. 1982/566 The whole of the regulations
The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1983S.I. 1983/185The whole of the regulations
The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1983 S.I. 1983/1094 The whole of the regulations
The Social Security Adjudication (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1984S.I. 1984/458Regulation 7
The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1984 S.I. 1984/1659 The whole of the regulations
The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1985S.I. 1985/159The whole of the regulations