Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2011 - REG 699

    For 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)   that involves providing treatment or care to a person; or

  (ii)   that involves contact with human blood or body substances; or

  (iii)   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.