Workers’ Compensation General Regulations
made under Section 184 of the
Workers’ Compensation Act
S.N.S. 1994-95, c. 10
O.I.C. 96-59 (effective February 1, 1996), N.S. Reg. 22/1996
amended to O.I.C. 2024-291 (effective September 1, 2024), N.S. Reg. 151/2024
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Citation
[Definition of “assessable payroll”]
Scope of coverage—inclusion of industries
Scope of coverage—exclusion of industries
Scope of coverage—exclusion of classes of workers
Scope of coverage—exclusion of class of employers
Occupational diseases
Earnings
Minimum and maximum earnings
Annuities
Survivor benefits
Supplementary benefits
Posting of notices
Assessments
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Occupations comprising front-line or emergency-response workers
Prescribed diagnosticians
Date presumption in Section 12A of Act applies
Application of presumption—period for diagnosis after ceasing employment
Deadline for filing claim for compensation after diagnosis
Definition for clause 10J(2)(a) of Act
Appendix “A”
Appendix “B”
Citation
1 These regulations may be cited as the Workers’ Compensation General Regulations.
[Definition of “assessable payroll”]
1A (1) In these regulations “assessable payroll” includes employment earnings reportable
to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency in Box 14 of T4 slips, labelled as
“Employment Income” or “Gross Earnings”, but does not include
(a) earnings in excess of the maximum amount for a worker’s gross annual
earnings determined as maximum earnings pursuant to clause 41(c) of the
Act;
(b) earnings of classes of workers excluded from the Act;
(c) employer-funded short and long-term disability benefits;
(d) employer-funded top-up of workers’ compensation benefits, wage-loss
replacement plans, maternity and parental benefits; or
(e) an amount included in Box 14 of a T4 slip that is an allowance for
equipment used at the employee’s expense provided for in subclause
8(1)(i)(iii) of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
(2) For greater certainty, nothing in these regulations shall be interpreted as limiting
the discretion of the Board to determine, for the purposes of Section 9 of the Act,
the amount that shall be deemed to be the earnings of a worker, and to determine
the assessment to be remitted by a person who is deemed to be an employer
pursuant to Section 9 of the Act.
Scope of coverage—inclusion of industries
2 Subject to Sections 3 to 18, employers and workers engaged in, about or in connection
with the industries listed in Appendix “A” are subject to the operation of the Act.
Scope of coverage—exclusion of industries
3 Despite Section 2, employers and workers engaged in, about or in connection with the
following industries are excluded from the operation of the Act:
(a) the business of a florist or seedman, seed growing, gardening and
horticulture; the keeping or breeding of livestock, poultry or bees; fruit
growing; the picking, grading, packing, hauling, handling and storage of
fruit or vegetables;
(b) barber shops and shoe shine establishments;
(c) undertaking and funeral directing;
(d) educational institutions, surgical medical, veterinary work and dental
surgery;
(e) taxidermy;
(f) work upon golf courses, tennis grounds, grounds used for open air sports,
games or athletics when performed by workers of the owner or occupier;
(g) the operation of taxicabs;
(h) all operations and work carried on by means of a ship, boat or vessel of any
kind or performed by the members of the crew thereof, that are not included
in the industries listed in Appendix “A” of these regulations; and
(i) fishing, sealing and dredging before the first day of January, 1970.
4 (1) Subject to subsection (2), marine wrecking, marine salving, the landing,
warehousing and caring for property so salved, all operations in or about a ship
wrecked, or in distress, and all work incidental to any of the foregoing are excluded
from the application of the Act.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the work is
(a) performed by an employer who is assessed with respect to any industry
which includes such operations;
(b) carried on by means of a steamship whose general operations at the time are
within the application of the Act; or
(c) performed for the employer by the members of the crew of the ship wrecked
or in distress and the industry in which the ship is engaged is at the time
within the application of the Act.
(3) In the cases mentioned in subsection (2), the employer is liable for such special or
additional assessment with respect to the operations as the Board may make.
5 Every industry which, if carried on by an employer carrying on no other industry, would
not be an industry to which the Act applies, is excluded from the application of the Act
when it is carried on as a separate business or undertaking by an employer who is also
carrying on an industry to which the Act applies.
6 (1) Anything not itself carried on or done by the employer as a business or trade,
which but for this Section would be an industry to which the Act applies, is
excluded from the application of the Act, except when it is carried on or performed
as part of, or as a process in, or as incidental to, an industry to which the Act
applies.
(2) This Section does not apply to any industry carried on by or for a city, town or
municipality, or a public utility, or to anything incidental thereto.
7 When an industry is carried on by a city, town or municipal corporation, the work in
connection with the industry that is performed by the mayor, warden, councillors,
aldermen, clerk, treasurer or manager, is excluded from the application of the Act.
8 [repealed]
Scope of coverage—exclusion of classes of workers
9 (1) The following persons are excluded from the Act:
(a) persons whose employment is of a casual nature when they are employed
otherwise than for the purposes of the employer’s trade or business;
(b) outworkers;
(c) persons employed by a city, town or municipal corporation as members of a
police force or the fire department, except volunteer firefighters to whom
Part I of the Act applies; and
(d) farm labourers or domestic or menial servants or their employers.
(2) In this Section, “outworker” means a person to whom articles or materials are
given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished, repaired
or adapted for sale in the person’s own home or on other premises not under the
direct or indirect control or management of the person who gave out the articles or
materials.
10 All actors, players, artists and entertainers and all members of a company or troupe of
actors, players or entertainers and the work performed by them in a theatre or
broadcasting station, as well as all work incidental to their engagement or performances
are excluded from the application of the Act.
11 (1) Any director or officer of an incorporated company who performs no services for
the company except to attend directors’ meetings, and the work so performed, are
excluded from the Act.
(2) Where a director or officer of an incorporated company holds the position of
President, Vice-President, or any other office and receives no remuneration for
services other than such amount as may be allowed to each director of the
company for attending directors’ meetings, such persons and the work performed
by them are excluded from the Act.
12 Persons receiving remuneration for soliciting subscriptions for or selling newspapers and
other periodicals or for writing editorials, news items or articles or for making
collections, but who do not perform any other duties in connection with the newspaper,
magazine or other publication and do not in connection with their duties occupy or use
any office, room or space in the building in which the newspaper, magazine or
publication is printed or in which are editorial, business or other offices, or in which the
type is set up or the machinery is installed, are excluded from the application of the Act.
13 Persons employed by a telephone company to perform services in a house or building
not owned, occupied or controlled by the company and whose time is not wholly
devoted during office hours to the work of the employer, are excluded from the
application of the Act and the services performed by those employees are excluded from
the application of the Act.
14 Travelling sales workers when they are the only workers employed in an industry are
excluded from the application of the Act.
Scope of coverage—exclusion of class of employers
15 Subject to Sections 16 to 18, every business or undertaking is excluded from the
application of the Act until at least three workers are at the same time employed in the
business or undertaking.
16 Where a business or undertaking is being carried on
(a) partly by the employer and partly by one or more contractors; or
(b) entirely by two or more contractors of an employer,
the business or undertaking is not excluded from the application of the Act after the time
three or more workers are at the same time employed in the business or undertaking.
17 When counting the number of workers for purposes of Section 15, “worker” includes
(a) a person who would be a worker but for the operation of clause 2(ae)(xiii)
of the Act; and
(b) an officer, director or manager of an employer, where the person is
(i) actively engaged in the business but not carried on the payroll of the
business at the person’s actual earnings, or
(ii) not actively engaged in the business but carried on the payroll of the
business.
18 For greater certainty, the definition of “worker” in Section 17
(a) is made solely for purposes of counting the number of workers for purposes
of Section 15;
(b) does not operate to make a person described in Section 17 a “worker” for
purposes of the Act; and
(c) does not entitle any person described in Section 17 to compensation under
the Act.
Occupational diseases
19 The processes, trades or occupations, and the corresponding occupational diseases listed
in Appendix “B” are listed for the purposes of subsection 12(3) of the Act.
Earnings
20 (1) A worker’s gross average earnings are the total of
(a) the worker’s regular salary or wages; and
(b) after the first 26 weeks of earnings-replacement benefits or for purposes of
benefits other than earnings-replacement benefits and extended earnings-replacement benefits, income from
(i) overtime that is not regular salary or wages, and
(ii) federal employment insurance benefits other than those payable as
maternity or parental leave benefits.
(2) For the purposes of calculating net average earnings under subsection 39(1) of the
Act, earnings-related expenses shall be deducted from gross average earnings.
Minimum and maximum earnings
21 The gross annual earnings of a member of a volunteer fire department to whom Part I of
the Act applies shall be
(a) a minimum of $10 200 dollars, and
(b) a maximum of the amount determined as maximum earnings pursuant to
clause 41(c) of the Act.
22 (1) In this Section, “average industrial wage for Nova Scotia” means the wage
reported by Statistics Canada as ‘Average weekly earnings, for all employees,
industrial aggregate, Nova Scotia’, for the 12-month period ending March 31 in the
preceding calendar year.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the percentage for purposes of clause 41(c) of the Act is
135.7%.
(3) The amount derived by multiplying the average industrial wage by 135.7% shall,
for purposes of Sections 41 and 124 of the Act, be rounded to the nearest $100.
Annuities
23 (1) In this Section,
(a) “principal” means the amount reserved by the Board as an annuity pursuant
to Sections 50 or 66 of the Act; and
(b) “recipient” means the person entitled to receive an annuity pursuant to the
Act.
(2) Where the principal and accrued interest is less than $10 000 at the time the
annuity becomes payable, the Board shall, unless the recipient requests otherwise,
pay the principal and interest to the recipient in a lump sum.
24 [repealed]
Survivor benefits
25 The maximum amount payable pursuant to clause 60(1)(b) of the Act for transportation
of the body of the worker is:
(a) $500, where the place of death is within the Province; or
(b) an amount equal to the actual expenses of transportation, where the place of
death is outside the Province.
26 The amount of the death benefit payable pursuant to subclause 60(1)(c)(i) of the Act is
$15 000.
27 The amount of the dependent-child benefit payable pursuant to clause 60(1)(d) of the Act
is $196 per month.
Supplementary benefits
28 In Sections 29 to 33,
(a) “applicant” means a worker, dependent spouse or invalid child who
(i) satisfies the criteria in clauses 227(4)(a), (b) and (c) of the Act, and
(ii) has made an application pursuant to clause 29(1)(a);
(b) “average industrial wage for Nova Scotia” means the wage reported by
Statistics Canada as ‘Seasonally Adjusted Estimates of Average Weekly
Earnings, for all employees, industrial aggregate, Nova Scotia’, for the 12-month period ending June 30 in the same calendar year as the
commencement of the benefit year;
(c) “benefit year” means the period beginning on October 1 and ending on
September 30, in every year;
(d) “CPP/QPP” means the Canada Pension Plan or Quebec Pension Plan; and
(e) “supplementary benefit” means the benefit described in subsection 227(4) of
the Act.
29 (1) A supplementary benefit shall not be paid unless an applicant
(a) applies in writing to the Board; and
(b) provides the Board with the information required by the Board from time to
time for determining eligibility for the supplementary benefit.
(1A) Despite clause (1)(a), an applicant in receipt of a supplementary benefit on October
1, 2002, shall not be required to apply for a supplementary benefit for the benefit
year commencing on October 1, 2002.
(2) An applicant who is an injured worker is eligible for a supplementary benefit if the
worker
(a) is receiving a CPP/QPP disability pension for the worker’s compensable
injury; or
(b) would, in the opinion of the Board, be eligible for a CPP/QPP disability
pension for the worker’s compensable injury but for insufficient
contributions or lack of contributions to CPP/QPP.
(3) An applicant is eligible for a supplementary benefit until the month after the month
in which the applicant attains the age of sixty-five years.
(4) A supplementary benefit is payable as of the first day of the month in which
application for the supplementary benefit is made, but shall not be payable earlier
than October 1, 2002.
30 (1) Despite subsection 29(4), a supplementary benefit is payable as of any date fixed
by the Board that is earlier than the date fixed by subsection 29(4), if an applicant
satisfies the criteria in clauses 227(4)(a), (b) and (c) of the Act on the date Section
227 of the Act is proclaimed in force.
(2) A date fixed by the Board pursuant to subsection (1) shall not be earlier than
October 1, 2002
32 The amount of a supplementary benefit is the amount necessary to increase an
applicant’s individual annual personal income to an amount equal to one-half of the
average industrial wage for Nova Scotia.
33 (1) An applicant’s individual annual personal income is the applicant’s total income
for the calendar year preceding the benefit year minus income received that year in
the form of a supplementary benefit from the Board.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an applicant’s total income for the calendar year
is as defined by the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency for purposes of
individual income tax returns.
Posting of notices
34 Every employer shall post and keep posted in conspicuous places within easy access of
the employer’s workers
(a) any card, notice or printed information which the Board directs the
employer to post; and
(b) a notice informing the employer’s workers of the nearest location at which a
copy of the Act can be viewed or obtained.
Assessments
35 (1) Unless otherwise approved by the Board, an employer shall
(a) report the employer’s assessable payroll; and
(b) remit assessments in respect of the employer’s assessable payroll
to the Board on a periodic basis at the same time as the employer is required to
report and remit to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency for the purposes of
income tax, Canada Pension Plan contributions, and employment insurance
premiums.
(2) For the purposes of clause (1)(a), subject to subsection 1A(2), assessment
premiums shall be determined by multiplying the employer’s assessable payroll by
the applicable assessment rate per hundred dollars of assessable payroll.
36 Where an employer fails to register with the Board upon becoming an employer, the
employer is liable to a penalty equal to 10% of the employer’s assessment, including the
assessment levied for the period of non-registration.
37 (1) Where an employer fails to report to the Board
(a) the employer’s assessable payroll; or
(b) any information required by the Board pursuant to Section 127 of the Act,
the employer is liable to a penalty equal to 10% of the assessment premium for the
reporting period.
(2) For purposes of subsection (1), the penalty may be increased to 20% if the Board
determines that the employer
(a) has wilfully misrepresented information; or
(b) failed to report in accordance with subsection 35(1) more than once in a 12-month period.
(3) If no assessment premium is remitted by the employer when a remittance is
required pursuant to subsection 35(1), the penalty referred to in subsection (1) may
be based on the weighted average assessment premium for the employer during the
previous 12 months, and months with no assessable payroll shall not be included in
the average.
38 Where an employer does not pay an assessment within the time required by the Board,
the employer is liable for interest on the balance owed calculated at the rate set out in
Sections 4301 and 4302 of the Income Tax Regulations (Canada).
39 Where an employer under-reports the assessable payroll in a report provided to the Board
pursuant to subsection 35(1), the employer is liable for a penalty of
(a) 10% of the difference between the actual assessment required pursuant to
Section 35 and the assessment as originally calculated; and
(b) interest calculated at the rate set out in Sections 4301 and 4302 of the
Income Tax Regulations (Canada).
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Re-filing claim for post-traumatic stress disorder
40 In subsection 12A(7) of the Act, “re-file” means to re-submit the claim to the Board and
have it adjudicated
(a) as if for the first time, but based on the application of the presumption set
out in subsection 12A(2) of the Act; and
(b) without requiring that any evidence presented in support of the claim be
(i) new evidence, or
(ii) evidence that could not have been presented at the time the claim
was originally denied.
Occupations comprising front-line or emergency-response workers
41 (1) The occupation of sheriff is prescribed as an occupation for the purpose of the
definition of “front-line or emergency-response worker” in clause 12A(1)(a) of the
Act.
(2) For purposes of the occupations comprising front-line or emergency-response
workers in Section 12A of the Act, the following definitions apply:
“continuing-care assistant” means a worker who meets all of the following criteria:
(i) they are a graduate of a CCA program approved by the Department
of Health and Wellness who has successfully passed the Nova Scotia
CCA provincial examination or an equivalent examination
recognized by the Department and holds a CCA certificate issued or
recognized by the Department as an equivalent of a CCA certificate,
(ii) they provide personal care or support to individuals for activities of
daily living and instrumental activities of daily living;
“correctional officer” means a worker who is directly involved in the care, health,
discipline, safety and custody of an offender in custody in a correctional facility,
including a youth worker employed in a correctional facility, but does not include a
sheriff, probation officer or parole officer;
“emergency-response dispatcher” means a worker whose duties include either of
the following:
(i) dispatching ambulance services, firefighters or police officers,
(ii) receiving emergency calls that initiate the dispatch of ambulance
services, firefighters or police officers;
“firefighter” means a worker, including officers and technicians, employed by a
municipality or the Department of National Defence who is assigned exclusively to
fire protection and fire prevention duties notwithstanding that those duties may
include the performance of ambulance or rescue services, and includes a member
of a volunteer fire department who performs those duties;
“nurse” means any of the following workers:
(i) a registered nurse as defined in the Registered Nurses Act or other
person permitted by law to engage in the practice of nursing as
defined in that Act,
(ii) a licensed practical nurse as defined in the Licensed Practical Nurses
Act or other person permitted by law to engage in the practice of
practical nursing as defined in that Act;
“paramedic” means a worker who is a paramedic as defined in the Paramedics
Act;
“police officer” means a worker who is a police officer appointed under the Police
Act, other than a special constable, by-law enforcement officer or auxiliary police
officer appointed under Sections 88 to 91 of the Police Act, and includes all of the
following:
(i) a member of an agency as defined in the Police Act, other than a
member of the Provincial Police as defined in the Police Act or the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (Canada),
(ii) a chief officer as defined in the Police Act,
(iii) a member of the Serious Incident Response Team as defined in the
Police Act,
(iv) an aboriginal police officer appointed under Section 87 of the Police
Act;
“sheriff” means a worker appointed as a Chief Sheriff, Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff or
Sheriff Officer under the Civil Service Act for purposes of providing sheriff
services to the Province, including court facility security, prisoner transportation
and civil enforcement.
(3) In subsection (2),
“CCA” means a continuing-care assistant;
“correctional facility” means a correctional facility as defined in the Correctional
Services Act and, for the purposes of the Government Employees Compensation
Act (Canada), includes a penitentiary as defined in the Corrections and
Conditional Release Act (Canada).
Prescribed diagnosticians
42 All of the following persons are prescribed diagnosticians for purposes of Section 12A of
the Act:
(a) a psychiatrist as defined in the Hospitals Act or an individual who has a
similar status in another province of Canada;
(b) a registered psychologist as defined in the Psychologists Act or an individual
who has a similar status in another province of Canada.
Date presumption in Section 12A of Act applies
43 The date on and after which the presumption created by subsection 12A(2) of the Act
applies is October 26, 2013.
Application of presumption—period for diagnosis after ceasing employment
44 The period for diagnosing a worker under clause 12A(4)(b) of the Act after the worker
ceases to be employed as a front-line or emergency-response worker is unlimited.
Deadline for filing claim for compensation after diagnosis
45 The period for filing a claim for compensation in clause 83(2A)(b) of the Act after a
worker is diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder is 5 years.
Definition for clause 10J(2)(a) of Act
46 In clause 10J(2)(a) of the Act,
“workplace harassment or bullying” means a single significant occurrence or a
course of repeated occurrences of objectionable or unwelcome conduct, comment
or action in the workplace that, whether intended or not, degrades, intimidates or
threatens, and includes all of the following, but does not include any action taken
by an employer or supervisor relating to the management and direction of a worker
or the workplace:
(i) workplace harassment or bullying that is based on any personal
characteristic, including, but not limited to, a characteristic referred to
in clauses 5(1)(h) to (v) of the Human Rights Act,
(ii) inappropriate sexual conduct, including, but not limited to, sexual
solicitation or advances, sexually suggestive remarks or gestures,
circulating or sharing inappropriate images or unwanted physical
contact.
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Appendix “A”
∙ Abattoirs, including preparation of meats and manufacturing of meat products
∙ Agricultural implements manufacturing
∙ Aircraft manufacturing and assembling, not including aerial testing, flying or
demonstrating
∙ Artificial ice manufacturing
∙ Automobile assembly and manufacturing
∙ Aviation and aerial transportation
∙ Awning and tent manufacturing, sail making and burlap manufacturing
∙ Axe manufacturing
∙ Bakeries
∙ Bakeries and manufacturing of confectionery
∙ Barytes mining and milling
∙ Beverage manufacturing and breweries
∙ Bill posting
∙ Blacksmith shops
∙ Boat building, including manufacture of blocks and spars for ships
∙ Boiler scaling and cleaning
∙ Boiler making, machine shops, general metal repairs and marine engineering
∙ Bolt, nut and other metal products manufacturing
∙ Bookbinding and printing
∙ Boot and shoe manufacturing
∙ Box shooks manufacturing and box making
∙ Brick, tile, pottery, sewer pipe manufacturing
∙ Bridge building, operation of bridges
∙ Broadcasting stations
∙ Building
∙ Building construction: carpentry, cellar excavation, concrete, brick or masonry
work in connection with building construction, glazing or installation of
plate or leaded glass, lathing, installation of mantels or grates, paper-hanging, decorating and renovating, plastering, painting, roofing and
building moving
∙ Bus transportation service
∙ Butter, cheese and other dairy products manufacturing
∙ Cable or telephone system
∙ Canneries
∙ Canning
∙ Carbonic acid gas manufacturing and manufacturing of dry ice and bottling and
distributing propane gas
∙ Carpet and rug manufacturing
∙ Catering
∙ Cement manufacturing
∙ Chimneys or stacks, elevated water tanks, stand-pipes or water towers, steeples
∙ Cider manufacturing and syrup and extracts manufacturing and distillery
∙ Cleaning products manufacturing
∙ Cleaning and dyeing
∙ Clothing manufacturing
∙ Coal mining
∙ Coal yards, including delivery
∙ Coffin and casket manufacturing
∙ Cold storage plants
∙ Cold storage warehouses
∙ Condensed milk manufacturing
∙ Construction
∙ Construction of electric power plants
∙ Cooperage stock (assembling) with machinery or handwork
∙ Cordage manufacturing
∙ Creosoting timber
∙ Cutlery manufacturing
∙ Cutting and selling of Christmas trees
∙ Dairies
∙ Decorating
∙ Departmental and mail order stores
∙ Distributing fuel oil and installation of heating equipment, when in conjunction
∙ Dredging
∙ Drilling
∙ Drug manufacturing
∙ Dry docks operation and steel ship building and repairs
∙ Dyeing and cleaning
∙ Electric wiring of buildings, installation of electrical systems and fixtures
∙ Electric light and power plants operation and maintenance, extension of lines and
making service connections
∙ Electric light or power plant or system
∙ Elevators
∙ Enamel ware manufacturing
∙ Engine manufacturing
∙ Engine and machinery installation and repairs
∙ Engineering
∙ Excavation
∙ Express companies
∙ Fertilizer manufacturing
∙ Fish curing and packing, marine products manufacturing, and canning of lobsters
and other shellfish
∙ Fishing, sealing, whaling and dredging
∙ Foundries
∙ Fruit evaporating
∙ Fruit packing, feed mixing and combining
∙ Furniture manufacturing
∙ Garages, including motor vehicle repairs and vulcanizing, auto sales and service,
and service stations
∙ General stores
∙ Geophysical explorations
∙ Grist mills
∙ Handling of hides
∙ Hat and cap manufacturing
∙ Heating and sanitary engineering
∙ Highway bridge and overpass construction
∙ Hotels, restaurants, taverns, lounges, motels and catering
∙ Ice harvesting, storing and delivery
∙ Jewellery manufacturing and lens manufacturing
∙ Junk dealers and junk scrapping
∙ Landscaping
∙ Laundries
∙ Leather goods manufacturing and rubber stamps manufacturing
∙ Lithographing and engraving
∙ Lumbering: logging, woods operations, river driving, rafting, booming, cutting and
peeling pulpwood, sawmills, shingle mills, lath mills, rossing plants,
excelsior mills, cooperage stock manufacturing with sawmills, hauling and
loading on cars or vessels, as a business or in an industry in this group, and
surveying of lines of timberlands in an industry in this group; Christmas tree
operations and the construction and repair of dams, camps, sawmills and
other buildings
∙ Lumber yards, lumber yards (commercial)
∙ Machinery and engine installation and repairs
∙ Manufacture of shipping containers
∙ Manufacture, sale and distribution of artificial ice
∙ Manufacturing
∙ Manufacturing of warm air furnaces
∙ Manufacturing of concrete products
∙ Manufacturing television sets, radar and electronic instruments
∙ Marine railway and dry dock operations
∙ Marine railway operation
∙ Mattress manufacturing
∙ Milk dealers and ice cream manufacturing, including delivery
∙ Mining
∙ Mining not otherwise classified
∙ Oil refining
∙ Operation of any railway, tramway, telegraph, cable or telephone system
∙ Operation of hospitals, nursing homes, homes for the aged, welfare homes,
municipal homes, convalescent homes and veterinary hospitals
∙ Oxygen and dissolved acetylene gas manufacturing
∙ Packing houses
∙ Paint manufacturing
∙ Painting
∙ Peat processing
∙ Plaster milling
∙ Plastics manufacture, manufacture of hardboard
∙ Plumbing, including house connections, and heating
∙ Printing
∙ Prospecting and development of mining properties
∙ Prospecting, development and geophysical explorations, boring or sinking artesian
wells as a business, diamond drilling
∙ Pulp and paper mill
∙ Pulp manufacturing
∙ Quarrying
∙ Rafting of lumber
∙ Railroad car manufacturing
∙ Railroad construction
∙ Railroad operation
∙ Refrigeration
∙ Renovating
∙ Restaurants
∙ Retail stores and establishments
∙ Riverdriving
∙ Road and street making and paving
∙ Road construction and repairs
∙ Rock wool manufacturing
∙ Rolling mills
∙ Salt mining
∙ Salt processing and refining
∙ Sand, clay and gravel digging
∙ Scavenging
∙ Sealing
∙ Service stations
∙ Sewer construction
∙ Sewers, waterworks, gas works, and any public utility
∙ Sheet metal works
∙ Shipbuilding
∙ Spice mills
∙ Spring bed manufacturing
∙ Steam packing and insulation manufacturing
∙ Steel and iron works
∙ Stevedoring
∙ Stone cutting, dressing and polishing
∙ Stone crushing
∙ Street cleaning,
∙ Streets and sidewalks maintenance and construction carried on by municipalities
∙ Structural steel erection
∙ Structural steel - iron and metal fabrication
∙ Sugar refining
∙ Supermarkets
∙ Tanks—erection of steel storage tanks when placed on the ground
∙ Tanning
∙ Tar manufacturing
∙ Taverns and lounges
∙ Teaming
∙ Telegraph & telephone companies: operation, maintenance, extension of lines, etc.
∙ Telegraph & telephone companies: office and exchange employees
∙ Textile manufacturing
∙ Theatres
∙ Tinsmith shop and can manufacturing
∙ Transportation
∙ Trucking and transportation - automotive
∙ Warehouses
∙ Warehouses, not otherwise classified
∙ Waterworks construction
∙ Waterworks operation
∙ Whaling
∙ Wharf and breakwater construction
∙ Wholesale stores and establishments
∙ Window cleaning
∙ Wooden articles manufacturing not otherwise classified
∙ Wooden shipbuilding
∙ Woodworking factories and planing and moulding mills, without rotary saw
∙ Yeast manufacturing
and any occupation incidental to or immediately connected with any of the industries or
operations mentioned above.
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Appendix “B”
Description of diseases
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Description of process
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anthrax
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handling of wool, hair, bristles, hides and skins
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carbon monoxide poisoning
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any process of work involving exposure to carbon
monoxide
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lead poisoning or its sequelae
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any process involving the use of lead or its
preparations or compounds
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mercury poisoning or its sequelae
|
any process involving the use of mercury or its
preparations or compounds
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phosphorus poisoning or its sequelae
|
any process involving the use of phosphorus or its
preparations or compounds
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arsenic poisoning or sequelae
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any process involving the use of arsenic or its
preparations or compounds
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ankylostomiasis
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mining
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subcutaneous cellulitis of the hand (beat
hand)
|
mining
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subcutaneous cellulitis over the patella
(miner’s beat knee)
|
mining
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acute bursitis over the elbow (miner’s
beat elbow)
|
mining
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frostbite
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any outdoor work
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dermatitis venenata
|
any industrial process involving the handling or use
of irritants capable of causing or producing
dermatitis venenata
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epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of
the skin due to tar, pitch, bitumen,
mineral oil or paraffin or any
compound, product or residue of any of
these substances
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handling or use of tar, pitch, bitumen, mineral oil or
paraffin, or any compound, product or residue of
any of these substances
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coal miners’ pneumonoconiosis
|
coal mining
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tenosynovitis (simple)
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any process involving constantly repeated vibration
or excessive use of muscles of arm, forearm, hand,
leg, ankle or foot
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any disease or disability due to
exposure to X-rays, radium, or other
radioactive substances
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any process in the refining of radium or other
radioactive substances or involving exposure to X-rays
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The following regulations are not yet in force and are
not included in the current consolidation: