Prepare an industrial deafness claim from the audiograms
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the audiograms and the employment history the lawyer supplies, using a firm-controlled tool, table the dates, the binaural figures and the employers, and list the exclusions the opened page names. Do not convert a figure to a whole-person impairment unless the opened table states that conversion.
- What the lawyer must review
- Decide whether the hearing loss is claimed, and against which employment.
- Apply that state's threshold and its deduction for earlier loss or for ageing.
- Do not deduct a prior percentage where the page says to deduct the dollars paid.
- Health and wage records stay in a firm-controlled tool. Apply ASCR r 9, APP 11, and the notifiable-breach test.
Open a jurisdiction version of this task to see which instruments apply: NSWQLDVIC
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the audiograms and the employment history the lawyer supplies, using a firm-controlled tool, table the dates, the binaural figures and the employers, and list the exclusions the opened page names. Do not convert a figure to a whole-person impairment unless the opened table states that conversion. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Transcribe each audiogram frequency from the report. Do not average frequencies the guideline does not average.
- In Victoria, deduct an earlier Victorian payment in dollars. Use the time-weighted percentage only where the manual treats the loss as interstate.
- In Queensland, list the five-year Queensland noisy employment and the natural-loss exclusion before the offer is considered.
- In New South Wales, use Table 9.1 for the conversion. Do not treat 20.5 per cent binaural as a statutory threshold of its own.
Sources
- WorkSafe Victoria claims manual: hearing loss claims policy · 2026-10-23
- Safe Work Australia: table 4.13, industrial deafness thresholds (2025, 30th edition) · 2026-10-23
- WorkSafe Queensland: industrial deafness · 2026-10-23
- WorkCover Queensland: industrial deafness · 2026-10-23
- SIRA: workers compensation guidelines for permanent impairment, chapter 9 hearing · 2026-10-23
- SIRA: workers compensation benefits guide · 2026-10-23
The common-law damages choice, where a lump sum is offered, is a different decision and is recorded against the election task.
Do not state a New South Wales deemed date of injury. The pages opened do not state one.
If health or wage records leave the firm-controlled tool, decide whether a Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) breach is notifiable.