Part 4 Respiratory diseases

| | Column 1Disease | Column 2Exposure or occupation | | 1. | Occupational asthma other than pre-existing asthma | Exposure to sensitising agents or irritants (including, but not limited to, arthropods or mites, biological enzymes, bioaerosols, products derived from fish/shellfish/animal, flour, sensitising foods, flowers, latex, wood dusts, soldering, reactive dyes, anhydrides, acrylates, epoxy, ethylene oxide, aldehydes, pesticides, amines, ammonia, industrial cleaning agents, acids, isocyanates, other reactive chemicals, sensitising metals and sensitising drugs). | | 2. | Coal workers' pneumoconiosis | Exposure to coal. | | 3. | Other forms of pneumoconiosis | Exposure to known causes of pneumoconiosis (including, but not limited to, beryllium, tin, iron oxide, barium, aluminium, cobalt and tungsten). | | 4. | Silicosis | Exposure to silica. | | 5. | Byssinosis | Exposure to cotton, flax, hemp or sisal dust. | | 6. | Extrinsic allergic alveolitis | Exposure to damp material of biological origin (including, but not limited to, mouldy hay, straw, grain and feathers). |