A group of industrial diseases that give sufferers legal entitlement to financial benefit. A claimant has to have worked in an occupation recognized to increase the risk of developing a particular disease. Examples include conditions due to physical agents (such as occupational deafness), biological agents (for example, anthrax), or chemical agents (such as lead poisoning); pneumoconiosis; and byssinosis. (See also notifiable diseases; occupational disease and injury.)
Prescribed diseases |
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