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Schedule 1 — Prescribed diseases and prescribed employment
[r. 5]
| Item | Column 1<br>Prescribed disease | Column 2<br>Prescribed employment | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious diseases | ||||
| 1. | Anthrax | Employment involving work with animals or animal carcasses (such as an animal handler, pelt handler, abattoir worker or meat inspector). | ||
| 2. | Avian Influenza | Employment involving work with birds (such as a poultry slaughterer, poultry farm worker, pet shop worker, veterinarian or veterinary nurse) or frontline health care occupations with direct patient contact (such as a nurse, doctor or physiotherapist). | ||
| 3. | Brucellosis | Employment involving work with animals or animal carcasses (such as a veterinarian, farmer or farm worker, abattoir worker or laboratory worker). | ||
| 4. | COVID‑19 | Employment as provided for in regulation 9(2) and with the conditions set out in regulation 9(3) and (5). | ||
| 5. | Hepatitis A | Employment involving contact with human waste (such as a worker in rural or remote communities, child care worker, carer of a person with an intellectual disability, sewage worker or plumber). | ||
| 6. | Hepatitis B or C | Employment involving contact with human bodily secretions (such as a health care worker, embalmer, person who handles bodily substances, clinical laboratory worker, worker in long‑term correctional facilities, police officer, member of the armed forces or emergency services worker). | ||
| 7. | HIV/AIDS | Health care workers and laboratory workers who become HIV infected after an injury caused by the use of a hypodermic needle or syringe. | ||
| 8. | Influenza A (H1N1) | Frontline health care employment with direct patient contact (such as a nurse, doctor or physiotherapist). | ||
| 9. | Leptospirosis |