Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit A list of prescribed diseases and About this table occupations covered by the scheme The table inside lists the diseases and the kinds of jobs which are included in the Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit Scheme. It is not a complete list of jobs and you should not be put off claiming just because your job is not listed. If in doubt, claim. The diseases covered by the scheme are known as prescribed diseases and are grouped according to their causes. There are 4 groups: Group A – due to physical agents Group B – due to biological agents Group C – due to chemical agents Group D – miscellaneous BI100 PD Version 01/21 Group A Conditions due to physical agents – physical cause Disease Name of disease or injury Any job involving number A1 Leukaemia (other than chronic lymphatic leukaemia) or cancer of the Exposure to electromagnetic radiations (other than radiant heat) or to ionising bone, female breast, testis or thyroid particles where the dose is sufficient to double the risk of the occurrence of the condition. For example, people working in the nuclear industry and hospital X-ray departments. A2 Cataract Frequent or prolonged exposure to radiation from red-hot or white-hot material. For example, glass and metal workers, stokers. A3 a Dysbarism, including decompression sickness, and barotrauma Subjection to compressed or rarefied air or other respirable gases or gaseous b osteonecrosis. For example, the bends mixtures. For example, underwater or tunnel workers. A4 Task specific facal dystonia of the hand or forearm. For example Prolonged periods of handwriting, typing or other repetitive movements of the writers cramp. fingers, hand or arm. For example, typists and clerks. A5 Subcutaneous cellulitis of the hand. Manual labour causing severe or prolonged friction or pressure on the hand. For example, miners and road workers using picks and shovels. A6 Bursitis or subcutaneous cellulitis arising at or about the knee due to Manual labour causing severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about the knee. the knee. For example, workers who kneel a lot. For example, housemaid’s knee. A7 Bursitis or subcutaneous cellulitis arising at or about the elbow due to Manual labour causing severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at or about the elbow. the elbow. For example, jobs involving continuous rubbing or pressure on the elbow. A8 Traumatic inflammation of the tendons of the hand or forearm, or of Manual labour, or frequent or repeated movements of the hand or wrist. For the associated tendon sheaths. Tenosynovitis example, routine assembly workers. BI100PD list PagePage 2 2 of of 19 19 Group A Conditions due to physical agents – physical cause continued Disease Name of disease or injury Any job involving number A10 Occupational deafness. Sensorineural hearing loss amounting to at The use of, or work wholly or mainly in the immediate vicinity of the use of, a: least 50dB in each ear, being the average of hearing losses at 1, 2 and 3 kHz frequencies, and being due in the case of at least one ear a band saw, circular saw or cutting disc to cut metal in the metal founding or to occupational noise forging industries, circular saw to cut products in the manufacture of steel, powered (other than hand powered) grinding tool on metal (other than sheet metal or plate metal), pneumatic percussive tool on metal, pressurised air arc tool to gouge metal, burner or torch to cut or dress steel-based products, skid transfer bank, knock out and shake out grid in a foundry, machine (other than a power press machine) to forge metal including a machine used to drop stamp metal by means of closed or open dies or drop hammers, machine to cut or shape or clean metal nails, or plasma spray gun to spray molten metal; b pneumatic percussive tool to drill rock in a quarry, on stone in a quarry works, underground, for mining coal, for sinking a shaft, or for tunnelling in civil engineering works; c vibrating metal moulding box in the concrete products industry, or circular saw to cut concrete masonry blocks; d machine in the manufacture of textiles for weaving man-made or natural fibres (including mineral fibres), high speed false twisting of fibres, or the mechanical cleaning of bobbins e multi-cutter moulding machine on wood, planing machine on wood, automatic or semiautomatic lathe on wood, multiple cross-cut machine on wood, automatic shaping machine on wood, double-end tenoning machine on wood, vertical spindle moulding machine including a high speed routing machine on wood, edge banding machine, on wood, bandsawing machine with a blade width of not less than 75 millimetres, on wood, circular sawing machine on wood including one operated by moving the blade towards the material being cut, or chain saw on wood; f jet of water (or mixture of water and abrasive material) at a pressure above 680 bar, or jet channelling process to burn stone in a quarry; g machine in a ship’s engine room, or gas turbine for performance testing on a test bed, installation testing of a replacement engine in an aircraft, or acceptance testing of an Armed Service fixed wing combat aircraft; BI100PD list PagePage 3 3 of of 19 19 Group A Conditions due to physical agents – physical cause continued Disease Name of disease or injury Any job involving number A10 h machine in the manufacture of glass containers or hollow ware for automatic continued moulding, automatic blow moulding, or automatic glass pressing and forming; i spinning machine using compressed air to produce glass wool or mineral wool; j continuous glass toughening furnace; k firearm by a police firearms training officer; or l shot-blaster to carry abrasives in air for cleaning. A11 a Intense blanching of the skin, with a sharp demarcation line a the use of hand-held chain saws in forestry; or between affected and non-affected skin, where the blanching is b the use of hand-held rotary tools in grinding or in the sanding or polishing of cold-induced, episodic, occurs throughout the year and affects metal, or the holding of material being ground, or metal being sanded or the skin of the distal with the middle and proximal phalanges, or polished, by rotary tools; or distal with the middle phalanx (or in the case of a thumb the distal with the proximal phalanx), of c the use of hand-held percussive metalworking tools, or the holding of metal i in the case of a person with 5 fingers (including thumb) on one being worked upon by percussive tools, in riveting, caulking, chipping, hand, any 3 of those fingers, or hammering, fettling or swaging;r o ii in the case of a person with only 4 such fingers, any 2 of those d the use of hand-held powered percussive drills or hand-held powered fingers, or percussive hammers in mining, quarrying, demolition, or on roads or iii in the case of a person with less than 4 such fingers, any one of footpaths, including road construction; or them or, as the case may be, the one remaining finger, where none of the person’s fingers was subject to any degree of e the holding of material being worked upon by pounding machines in shoe cold-induced, episodic blanching of the skin prior to the person’s manufacture. employment in an occupation described in the second column in relation to this paragraph, or b significant, demonstrable reduction in both sensory perception and manipulative dexterity with continuous numbness or continuous tingling all present at the same time in the distal phalanx of any finger (including thumb) where none of the person’s fingers was subject to any degree of reduction in sensory perception, manipulative dexterity, numbness or tingling prior to the person’s employment in an occupation described in the second column in relation to this paragraph, where the symptoms in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) were caused by vibration. BI100PD list PagePage 44 of of 1919 Group A Conditions due to physical agents – physical cause continued Disease Name of disease or injury Any job involving number A12 Carpal tunnel syndrome a The use, at the time the symptoms first develop, of hand-held powered tools whose internal parts vibrate so as to transmit that vibration to the hand, but excluding those which are solely powered by hand; or b repeated palmar flexion and dorsiflexion of the wrist for at least 20 hours per week for a period or periods amounting in aggregate to at least 12 months in the 24 month s prior to the onset of symptoms. We use repeated to mean once or more often in every thirty seconds. A13 Osteoarthritis of the hip Work in agriculture as a farmer or farm worker for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, 10 years or more. A14 Osteoarthritis of the knee Work underground in a coal mine for a period of, or periods which amount in aggregate to, at least 10 years in any one or more of the following occupations: a before 1st January 1986 as a coal miner; or b on or after 1st January 1986 as a (i) face worker working on a non-mechanised coal face; (ii) development worker; (iii) face-salvage worker; (iv) conveyor belt cleaner; or (v) conveyor belt attendant. A “non-mechanised coal face” means a coal face without either powered roof supports or a power loader machine which simultaneously cuts and loads the coal or without both.