---
title: "Match a Victorian exposure history to the proclaimed-disease process"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/build-an-exposure-and-employer-history-for-a-dust-claim/victoria"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-DD20261023-2-VIC"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["VIC"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-25"
---

# Match a Victorian exposure history to the proclaimed-disease process

> 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.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/build-an-exposure-and-employer-history-for-a-dust-claim/victoria  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-25

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| 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). |
| Written for | Victoria |
| Applies to | [Build an exposure and employer history for a dust claim](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/build-an-exposure-and-employer-history-for-a-dust-claim.md) |

## Checking plan

**Verify against sources**

The Victorian proclaimed-disease page turns on the manufacturing or other process involving inhalation of silica dust.

- What the AI does: 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 does: The lawyer matches the history to the current proclamation and decides whether the disease is proclaimed.
- Who reviews: Lawyer competent in this practice area
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 23 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Checks the lawyer makes

1. 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.
2. Lung cancer with silicosis and scleroderma with silicosis are the two diseases the page says have been added.
3. The history must show the process, not only the job title, because the page describes the process.
4. The proclamation instrument was not opened.

## Notes

- This table is the exposure history for the proclamation. It is not the file chronology.
- Wage and health records stay in the firm tool.

## Practical guide

Jurisdiction: WorkSafe Victoria proclaimed diseases

**Deliverable**: An exposure table the lawyer can match to the current proclamation.

**Inputs**

- Employment records
- Diagnosis
- Description of the process and the dust

**Example**: 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 escalate when**

- A row has no document.
- The output states that the disease is proclaimed without the instrument being checked.

Checked 2026-10-23.

## Sources

- [WorkSafe Victoria: new silica-related diseases now proclaimed](https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/new-silica-related-diseases-now-proclaimed) (checked 2026-10-23)
- [WorkSafe Victoria: 2022 silica compensation changes](https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/changes-silicosis-and-similar-occupational-diseases-workplace-safety-legislation-and-other-matters) (checked 2026-10-23)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Authorities to trace a dust client's employment and the former employers' insurers](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/authorities-trace-dust-employment-insurers.md) | Letter | 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](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/letter-former-employer-dust-history-insurer.md) | Letter | 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](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/product-identification-letter-asbestos-stone.md) | Letter | 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](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/letter-preserve-dust-employment-product-records.md) | Letter | 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.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*