Match a Victorian exposure history to the proclaimed-disease process
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Build a table of each employer, the process, the dust and the dates, so the lawyer can match it to the process described on the proclaimed-disease page.
- What the lawyer must review
- Check each employer, process and date against a record.
- Remove a row that rests only on the client's account.
- Do not call the disease proclaimed until the current instrument is checked.
- 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. WorkSafe Victoria proclaimed diseases
Produce. An exposure table the lawyer can match to the current proclamation.
Have ready. Employment records; Diagnosis; Description of the process and the dust.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: The records show cutting of engineered stone, not a job title alone. The tool records the process and the dust. The lawyer checks that process against the proclamation before treating silicosis as proclaimed.
Stop and hand it back when
- A row has no document.
- The output states that the disease is proclaimed without the instrument being checked.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Build a table of each employer, the process, the dust and the dates, so the lawyer can match it to the process described on the proclaimed-disease page. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- The opened page already included silicosis with or without pulmonary tuberculosis where the worker was engaged in manufacturing or other processes involving inhalation of silica dust.
- Lung cancer with silicosis and scleroderma with silicosis are the two diseases the page says have been added.
- The history must show the process, not only the job title, because the page describes the process.
- The proclamation instrument was not opened.
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
- WorkSafe Victoria: new silica-related diseases now proclaimed · 2026-10-23
- WorkSafe Victoria: 2022 silica compensation changes · 2026-10-23
This table is the exposure history for the proclamation. It is not the file chronology.
Wage and health records stay in the firm tool.