PART 1:
THE CONSOLIDATED ACT ON SOCIAL INSURANCE

SCHEDULE NO. 3

Occupational Diseases

NO.
Description of Disease
Nature of Employment
1. Lead poisoning and its complications ....
Any work or process involving the use or handling of lead and its compounds or materials containing lead including:- Handling ores containing lead, melting old lead and zinc (scrap) into ingots.
Manufacture of articles from molten old lead and zinc (scrap) or its compounds. Molten lead. Preparation and use of paints containing lead; burnishing and polishing with materials made of powdered or solid lead; all plating and painting operations requiring the preparation or blending of pigments with various types of putty and other substances containing lead elements etc; also any work involving exposure to dust or fumes of lead or its compounds or material containing lead.
2. Poisoning by mercury and its complications ....

The use or handling of mercury or its compounds or substances containing mercury; or any work necessitating exposure to dust or fumes of mercury or its compounds or alloys.

This includes:-
Any work or process in industry involving mercury compounds, manufacture of measuring instruments, of laboratory apparatus, the preparation of the raw materials necessary for hat-making, hot process gilding, the use of mercury in the manufacture of explosives, etc.

3. Arsenic poisoning and its complication ....

Any work or process involving the use or handling of arsenic, or its compounds, or alloys; and any work involving exposure to the dust or vapours of arsenic, or its compounds or alloys.
This includes:-
Processes in which arsenic or its compounds are generated as well as work in the production or manufacture of arsenic or its compounds.

4. Antimony poisoning and its complications ....

Any work or process involving the use or handling of antimony, its compounds or alloys; and any work involving exposure to the dust or fumes of antimony or of its compounds or alloys.

5. Poisoning by phosphorous and its compounds ....

Any work or process involving the use or handling of phosphorus, its compounds or alloys and any work involving exposure to the dust or vapours of phosphorus, or of its compounds or alloys.

6. Poisoning by benzol or by its methylates, amids, nitrates or their derivatives and the complications resulting from such poisoning ....

Any work or process involving the use or handling of these substances; and any work involving exposure to their vapours or dust.

7. Poisoning by manganese and its complications ....

Any work or process involving the use or handling of manganese, its compounds and alloys; and any work involving exposure to the fumes or dust of manganese, or of its compounds or alloys including extraction or preparation, grinding or packing.

8. Sulphur poisoning and its complications ….

Any work or process involving the use or handling of sulphur, its compounds or alloys; and any work involving exposure to the fumes or dust of sulphur or its compounds or alloys including exposure to gaseous or non-gaseous compounds of sulphur etc.

9. Sensitivity to chromium and its complications and ulcers arising therefrom ….

Any work or process involving the preparation, generation, use or handling of chromium or chromic acid, or of chromates or bichromates of sodium, potassium or zinc or any materials containing such substances.

10. Sensitivity to nickel and complications and ulcers ….

Any work or process involving the preparation, use or generation or handling of nickel or of its compounds or any substance containing nickel or its compounds; including exposure to nickel carbonyl dust.

11. Poisoning by carbon monoxide and the complications arising therefrom …

Any work or process involving exposure to carbon monoxide, including processes involving the preparation or use of carbon monoxide or its generation as happens in garages, brick kilns, lime kilns etc.

12. Poisoning by hydrocyanic acid and by its compounds and the complications resulting therefrom ….

Any work or process involving the preparation, use or handling of hydrocyanic acid or its compounds and any work involving exposure to the fumes or splashes of the acid or its compounds and their ashes, or of materials containing such compounds or ashes.

13. Poisoning by chlorine, fluorine, bromine and their compounds ….

Any work or process involving the preparation, use or handling of chlorine, fluorine or bromine or their compounds; and any work involving exposure to those substances or to their vapours or dust.

14. Poisoning by petroleum, its gases or derivatives and complications arising therefrom ….

Any work or process involving the handling or use of petroleum, its gases or derivatives; and any work involving exposures to such substances whether they are solids liquids or gaseous.

15. Poisoning by chloroform and by carbon tetrachloride ….

Any work or process involving the use or handling of chloroform or carbon tetrachloride; and any work involving exposure to these vapours containing such substances.

16. Poisoning by tetrachloroctmane, trichloroethylene and of hydrocarbon of the aliphatic group ….

Any work or process involving the use or handling of these substances, or involving exposure to their vapours or to any vapours containing such substances.

17. Diseases and pathalogical symptoms resulting from radium, radioactive substances and x-rays ….

Any work or process involving exposure to radium or to any other radio active materials or to x-rays.

18. Primary cancer of the skin, and chronic inflamation and ulceration of the skin or eyes ….

Any work or process involving the use or handling of or exposure to tar pitch, bitumen, mineral oils, including parafin or aromatic or any of the compounds, products or residues of such substances; as well as exposure to any irritant whether it is solid, liquid or gaseous.

19. Sensitivity of the eyes to heat and the complications arising therefrom ….

Any work or process involving frequent or continues exposure to the glare or radiation resulting from molten glass or from heated or melted metals, or exposure to such strong light or intense heat as would result in damage to the eye or impairment of vision.

20. Dust diseases of the lungs (pneumoconiosis) resulting from:
1. Silica dust (Silicosis)
2. Asbestos dust (Asbestosis)
3. Cotton dust (Byssinosis) ....

Any work or process involving exposure to a newly generated dust of silica or substances containing more than 5% of silica, such as mining, quarrying, stone cutting or grinding; the manufacture of stone-grinders, metal sand-blasting or any other operations involving such exposure; and any work involving exposure to asbestos or cotton dust to an extent that it causes such diseases.

21. Anthrax ….

Any work or process involving contact with animals infected with this disease, or the handling of their carcasses or parts thereof, such as hides, hooves, horns and fleece, including the loading, unloading and the transportation thereof.

22. Glanders ….

Any work or process involving contact with animals infected with this disease or the handling of their carcasses or any parts thereof.

23. Tuberculosis ….

Work at hospitals designated for the treatment of this disease, and work at laboratories which receive analyse, cultivate and inject samples of its bacillus.

24. Poisoning by Beryllium ....

Any work or process involving the use or handling of beryllium or a compound thereof or a substance containing beryllium.

25. Poisoning by Syllinium ….

Any work or process involving exposure to its dust, vapours, its compounds or substances thereof.

26. Symptoms and diseases resulting from exposure to variations in atmospheric pressure ….

Any work or process involving sudden exposure or work under high atmospheric pressure or sudden diffusion in atmospheric pressure or work for long periods under low atmospheric pressure.

27. Diseases and pathalo gical symptoms resulting from hormones and the
derivatives thereof

Any work or process involving exposure to the effect of hormones or derivatives thereof.

28. Diseases resulting from infectious fevers ….

Work at hospitals designated for the treatment of fevers or bacteriological laboratories, or any work involving contact with patients sick with fever.

29. Deafness resulting from employment ….

Any work or process involving exposure to loud noise including, as an example, work in aircraft marshalling or aircraft maintenance, road construction, mining, work beside machinery generating loud noise or exposure to drugs and chemicals which affect hearing.

30 Acute and chronic inflamation of the skin, eczema, primary cancer of the skin,
inflamation and ulceration of eyes

Any work or process involving exposure to any irritant, molten or itching substance whether solid, liquid, or gaseous including, as an example, exposure to mineral oils including paraffin and its compounds. pitch, tar, bitumin, acids, alcalines etc.


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