The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1991

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

2.—(1) In Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (list of prescribed diseases and the occupations for which they are prescribed) after the entry relating to disease numbered “B11.Q fever” there shall be inserted the following entries—

“B12. Orf.	Contact with sheep, goats or with the carcasses of sheep or goats.
B13. Hydatidosis.	Contact with dogs.”

(2) In Part I of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations the entry relating to the disease numbered D7 (occupational asthma) shall be amended by inserting after sub-paragraph (n), the following sub-paragraphs:—

“(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) 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) any other sensitising agent.”.