Incident notification – prescribed serious illnesses
699 Incident notification – prescribed serious illnesses
For the purposes of section 36 of the Act, each of the following conditions is a serious illness:
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 – with micro-organisms; or that involves providing treatment or care to a person; or that involves contact with human blood or body substances; or that involves handling or contact with animals, animal hides, skins, wool or hair, animal carcasses or animal waste products;
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:Q fever;Anthrax;Leptospirosis;Brucellosis;Hendra Virus;Avian Influenza;Psittacosis.
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