Occupational Asthma
2.—(1) The Prescribed Diseases Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In Part I of Schedule 1, the entry in the first column relating to the disease numbered D7 (occupational asthma) shall be amended by
(a)substituting for sub-paragraph (f) the following sub-paragraph:—
“(f)animals including insects and other arthropods used for the purposes of research or education or in laboratories”
; and
(b)inserting, after sub-paragraph (g), the following sub-paragraphs:—
“(h)antibiotics;
(i)cimetidine;
(j)wood dust;
(k)ispaghula;
(l)castor bean dust;
(m)ipecacuanha;
(n)azodicarbonamide”.
(3) In the second column of Schedule 4, for the entry set against the disease numbered D7 (occupational asthma) there shall be substituted the following entry:—
“(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.”.
(4) In Schedule 5, in paragraph (6)(a), for the entry
| “(vi) occupational asthma | :29th March 1982;” |
there shall be substituted the following entries:—
| “ “(vi) occupational asthma arising otherwise than as described at (vii) below | :29th March 1982; |
| (vii) Occupational asthma which is due to exposure to antibiotics, cimetidine, wood dust, ispaghula, castor bean dust, ipecacuanha or azodicarbonamide | :1st September 1986;”. |