Build a New South Wales exposure history for a Dust Diseases Care application
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Build the employment table the Dust Diseases Care application asks for: each employer, months, Australian state, employment type, job, whether exposure occurred and the dust type, each row sourced.
- What the lawyer must review
- Check every employer, month and state against a record.
- Mark exposure in New South Wales only where a record shows it.
- Remove a row that rests only on the client's account.
- Keep the reports in the firm tool under ASCR r 9, APP 11 and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
Rules that apply
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The work product
Forum. Dust Diseases Care application
Produce. An employment and exposure table in the fields the application page lists.
Have ready. Employment records; Dust type; State of each workplace.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: One employer was in New South Wales and two were elsewhere. The tool records the state on each row. The lawyer uses only the New South Wales rows for the SIRA eligibility point.
Stop and hand it back when
- The state of a workplace is missing.
- A row has no document.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Build the employment table the Dust Diseases Care application asks for: each employer, months, Australian state, employment type, job, whether exposure occurred and the dust type, each row sourced. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- The application asks for employer name, start and stop month and year, Australian state, employment type, job title, whether dust exposure occurred and the dust type.
- SIRA eligibility requires evidence that the exposure occurred while employed in New South Wales.
- The industrial history information sheet linked from the application is dated April 2018. Confirm it is still the sheet in use.
- A solicitor must hold the Authority to Release Employment Records before submitting. The tool does not complete that authority.
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
Do not upload scans or x-rays with this history. Reports may be uploaded.
This is the application history, not the file chronology.