Incident notification—prescribed serious illnesses—Act, s 36

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For the purposes of the Act, section 36 (What is a serious injury or illness—pt 3), each of the following conditions is a serious illness:

(a)

any infection to which the carrying out of work is a significant contributing factor, including any infection that is reliably attributable to carrying out work—

(i)

with micro‑organisms; or

(ii)

that involves providing treatment or care to a person; or

(iii)

that involves contact with human blood or body substances; or

(iv)

that involves handling or contact with animals, animal hides, skins, wool or hair, animal carcasses or animal waste products;

(b)

the following occupational zoonoses contracted in the course of work involving handling or contact with animals, animal hides, skins, wool or hair, animal carcasses or animal waste products:

(i)

Q fever;

(ii)

Anthrax;

(iii)

Leptospirosis;

(iv)

Brucellosis;

(v)

Hendra Virus;

(vi)

Avian Influenza;

(vii)

Psittacosis.

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