Serial No.

Occupational disease

Employment

(1)

(2)

(3)

1.

Infectious and parasitic diseases contracted in an occupation where there is a particular risk of contamination.

(a) all work involving exposure to health or laboratory work;

(b) all work involving exposure to veterinary work;

(c) work relating to handling animals, animal carcasses, part of such carcasses, or merchandise which may have been contaminated by animals or animal carcasses;

(d) other work carrying a particular risk of contamination.

2.

Diseases caused by work in compressed air

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

3.

Diseases caused by lead or its toxic compounds

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

4.

Poisoning by nitrous fumes

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

5.

Poisoning by organo phosphorus compounds

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

1.

Diseases caused by phosphorus or its toxic compounds

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

2.

Diseases caused by mercury or its toxic compounds

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

3.

Diseases caused by benzene or its toxic homologues

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

4.

Diseases caused by nitro and amido toxic derivatives of benzene or its homologues

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

5.

Diseases caused by chromium or its toxic compounds

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

6.

Diseases caused by arsenic or its toxic compounds

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

7.

Diseases caused by radioactive substances and ionising radiations

All work involving exposure to the action of radioactive substances or ionising radiations

8.

Primary epithelioma Tou’s cancer of the skin caused by tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, anthracene, or the compounds, products or residues of these substances

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

9.

Diseases caused by the toxic halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons (of the aliphatic and aromatic series).

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

10.

Diseases caused by carbon disulphide

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

11.

Occupational cataract due to infra-red radiations

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

12.

Diseases caused by manganese or its toxic compounds

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

13.

Skin diseases caused by physical, chemical or biological agents not included in other items

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

14.

Hearing impairment caused by noise

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

15.

Poisoning by dinitrophenol or a homologue or by substituted dinitro-phenol or by the salts of such substances

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

16.

Poisoning by dinitrophenol or a homologue or by substituted dinitro-phenol or by the salts of such substances

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

17.

Diseases caused by cadmium or its toxic compounds

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

18.

Occupational asthma caused by recognised sensitising agents inherent to the work process

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

19.

Diseases caused by fluorine or its toxic compounds

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

20.

Diseases caused by nitro-glycerine or other nitroacid esters

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

21.

Diseases caused by alcohols and ketones

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

22.

Diseases caused by asphyxiants, carbon monoxide and its toxic derivatives, hydrogen sulphide

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

23.

Lung cancer and mesotheliomas caused by asbestos

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

24.

Primary neoplasm of the epithelial lining of the urinary bladder or the kidney or the ureter

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

25.

Snow blindness in snow bound areas

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

26.

Diseases due to effect of heat in extreme hot climate

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

27.

Diseases due to effect of cold in extreme cold climate

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

1.

Pneumoconiosis caused by skeletogenic mineral dust (silicosis, anthracosilicotic, asbestosis) and silico-tuberculosis provided that silicosis is an essential factor in causing the resultant incapacity or death

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

2.

Bagassosis

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

3.

Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by cotton, flax hemp and sisal dust (Byssionsis).

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

4.

Extrinsic allergic alveelitis caused by the inhalation of organic dusts

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

5.

Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by hard metals

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.

6.

Acute Pulmonary oedema of high altitude.

All work involving exposure to the risk concerned.