Build an exposure and employer history for a dust claim
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- In a firm-controlled tool, build a table of each employer, the state of the workplace, the start and end month and year, the job, the dust type and whether exposure is recorded, with a document reference for every row and no narrative.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer checks each row against the record and decides which employers to pursue.
- Remove any row that rests only on the client's account.
- This history is for eligibility and defendants. It is not the file chronology.
- Use a firm-controlled tool. ASCR r 9, APP 11 and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) apply.
Open a jurisdiction version of this task to see which instruments apply: NSWVICQLD
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | In a firm-controlled tool, build a table of each employer, the state of the workplace, the start and end month and year, the job, the dust type and whether exposure is recorded, with a document reference for every row and no narrative. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Check each employer, date and state against the document cited.
- Remove a row that has no document reference.
- Confirm dust type and whether exposure occurred are taken from a record.
- Confirm the table is not described as the file chronology or issues list.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Authorities to trace a dust client's employment and the former employers' insurers | Letter | AI use Yellow | Authorities the client signs so the firm can ask former employers, and the New South Wales, Victorian and Queensland compensation bodies, for employment history and the insurer or claim file. |
| Letter to a former employer: employment history and the workers compensation insurer | Letter | AI use Yellow | A letter asking a former employer for the client's dates, job, sites, dust products, and the workers compensation insurer or self-insurer for those years. |
| Product identification letter for an asbestos or engineered-stone claim | Letter | AI use Yellow | A letter asking an employer, occupier, supplier or manufacturer to identify an asbestos product or an engineered-stone benchtop, panel or slab from its records. |
| Request to preserve employment, product and insurance records in a dust claim | Letter | AI use Yellow | A request that an employer, occupier, supplier or manufacturer keep employment, site, product and workers compensation insurance records while a dust claim is investigated. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.
Sources
- icare: make an application to Dust Diseases Care · 2026-10-23
- SIRA insurer guidance GN 10.1 Dust diseases · 2026-10-23
- WorkSafe Victoria: new silica-related diseases now proclaimed · 2026-10-23
- WorkCover Queensland: lump sum payments for latent onset injuries · 2026-10-23
These are suggested working checks. Confirm the required checking with the responsible lawyer before work starts; the checking approach does not establish permission to use AI.
Wage and health records stay in the firm tool. A breach may be notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).