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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |