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[Heading amended: No. 19 of 2010 s. 4.]
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* Arsenic, phosphorus, lead, mercury or other mineral poisoning |
Any employment involving the use or handling of arsenic, phosphorus, lead,
mercury, or other mineral, or their preparations or compounds. |
* Anthrax |
Wool-combing; wool-sorting; handling of hides, skins, wool, hair, bristles, or
carcasses; loading and unloading or transport of merchandise. |
Communicable diseases |
Employment in an occupation or in a situation exposing the worker to infection
by the intermediate hosts of any communicable disease or by agencies
transmitting any communicable disease, where within a reasonable period of
incubation, specific infection has followed demonstrable action of the
particular vectors or agents concerned in the transmission of that disease, or
where that action can be reasonably presumed. |
* Poisoning by trinitrotoluene or by benzol or its nitro and amido derivatives
(dinitrobenzol, aniline and others) |
Any process involving the use of trinitrotoluene or of the nitro and amido
derivatives of benzol or its preparations or compounds. |
Poisoning by a homologue of benzol |
Any process involving the use of homologue of benzol. |
* Poisoning by carbon bisulphide |
Any process involving the use of carbon bisulphide or its preparations or
compounds. |
Poisoning by a halogen derivative of a hydrocarbon of the aliphatic series |
Any process involving the use of a halogen derivative or a hydrocarbon of the
aliphatic series. |
* Poisoning by nitrous fumes |
Any process in which nitrous fumes are evolved. |
* Poisoning by fluorine |
Any process in which fluorine is used. |
* Poisoning by cyanogen compounds |
Any process in which cyanogen compounds are used. |
* Poisoning by carbon monoxide |
Any process in which carbon monoxide is used, or evolved. |
* Leptospirosis; endemic typhus, scrub typhus, Brill’s disease,
swineherds disease, plague, mite dermatitis and scrub itch |
Employment in an occupation or in a situation exposing the worker to infection
with a specific disease transmissible from animal to man where the specific
infection associated with occupation or situation develops within its known
incubation period and can be reasonably presumed to have occurred in the
course of such employment. |
* Chrome ulceration |
Any process involving the use of chromic acid or bichromate of ammonium,
potassium, or sodium, or their preparations. |
Effects of insolation |
Work entailing prolonged exposure to sunlight. |
Effects of electrical currents |
Workers exposed to electrical currents. |
Any dematosis, ulceration or injury to the skin or ulceration or injury to the
mucous membranes of the mouth or nose wholly or partly produced or aggravated
by contact with or inhalation or ingestion of irritating dusts, solids, gases
or fumes or mineral or vegetable irritants or ray burn |
Any industrial process. |
Epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of skin or of the corneal surface of the
eye due to tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, paraffin, or the compounds,
products or residues of those substances. |
Handling of tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil, paraffin, or the compounds,
products, or residues of those substances. |
* Pneumoconiosis |
Any process entailing exposure to mineral dusts harmful to the lungs. |
Mesothelioma |
Any process entailing substantial exposure to asbestos dust. |
Pathological manifestation due to — (a) radium and other radioactive substances; |
Any process involving exposure to the action of radium, radioactive
substances, X-rays or lasers. |
(b) X-rays; | |
(c) lasers. | |
Hepatitis B |
Employment in a hospital or other medical centre or a dental hospital or
dental centre or employment associated with a blood bank. |
Lung cancer |
Any process entailing heavy exposure to asbestos dust. |
Bronchopulmonary diseases caused by cotton, flax, hemp or sisal dust |
Any process entailing exposure to cotton, flax, hemp or sisal dust. |
Occupational asthma caused by sensitizing agents or irritants inherent to the
work process |
Any process entailing exposure to sensitizing agents or irritants inherent to
that process |
Extrinsic allergic alveolitis caused by the inhalation of organic dusts |
Any process entailing exposure to organic dusts. |
Diseases caused by alcohols, glycols or ketones |
Any process entailing exposure to alcohols, glycols or ketones. |
Diseases caused by the asphyxiants carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide or its
toxic derivatives or hydrogen sulfide |
Any process in which carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide or its toxic
derivatives or hydrogen sulfide is used. |
Diffuse pleural fibrosis |
Any process entailing substantial exposure to asbestos dust. |
* See section 48(2)
[Schedule 3 amended: No. 44 of 1985 s. 43; No. 48
of 1993 s. 42; (see Orders made under s. 45 5 ); No. 31 of 2011 s. 124.]