1. INTRODUCTION The Department of Employment (‘the Department’) is conducting work to support the updating of the current Deemed Diseases legislative instrument for the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (‘SRC Act’). This work required epidemiological analysis to provide information on risk related to occupational exposure, disease incidence rates, exposure prevalence; and duration of exposure and latency. The required information is presented in this report. The specific requirements were to: 1. A. Provide the risk ratings for the cancers and other diseases being considered for inclusion in the Comcare Scheme Deemed Diseases list; and B. Provide incident rates for cancers and other diseases in the population. 2. Apply a study explaining linkage between particular diseases and specific occupations to provide occupational exposure data information on exposure prevalence for various exposures relevant to particular diseases in relevant occupations. 3. Provide advice to the Department on the duration of exposure to causative agents would be sufficient to cause each of the diseases being considered for inclusion in the Comcare Scheme Deemed Diseases list. 2. APPROACH The project used published material, publically available material, information developed as part of the overall Deemed Diseases project1 and information developed by the author as part of his work on the Global Burden of Disease study2.
1. INTRODUCTION The Department of Employment (‘the Department’) is conducting work to support the updating of the current Deemed Diseases legislative instrument for the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (‘SRC Act’). This work required epidemiological analysis to provide information on risk related to occupational exposure, disease incidence rates, exposure prevalence; and duration of exposure and latency. The required information is presented in this report. The specific requirements were to: 1. A. Provide the risk ratings for the cancers and other diseases being considered for inclusion in the Comcare Scheme Deemed Diseases list; and B. Provide incident rates for cancers and other diseases in the population. 2. Apply a study explaining linkage between particular diseases and specific occupations to provide occupational exposure data information on exposure prevalence for various exposures relevant to particular diseases in relevant occupations. 3. Provide advice to the Department on the duration of exposure to causative agents would be sufficient to cause each of the diseases being considered for inclusion in the Comcare Scheme Deemed Diseases list. 2. APPROACH The project used published material, publically available material, information developed as part of the overall Deemed Diseases project1 and information developed by the author as part of his work on the Global Burden of Disease study2.