699Incident 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:

(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.