Test a Victorian heart attack or stroke against significant contributing factor
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the diagnosis and the work, using a firm-controlled tool, table the significant-contributing-factor rule for a heart attack or stroke from 3 December 2003. Do not decide the claim.
- What the lawyer must review
- Decide whether employment was a significant contributing factor.
- Apply the rule even when the event was spontaneous or tied to vascular disease.
- Do not add a significantly-greater-risk test.
- Health and wage records stay in a firm-controlled tool. Apply ASCR r 9, APP 11, and the notifiable-breach test.
Rules that apply
The document starts from the task name. Change it if this piece of work is different.
The work product
Forum. Victoria, claims manual, heart attack and stroke injuries
Produce. A note of the significant-contributing-factor question.
Have ready. Diagnosis of the cardiac or stroke event; The work being done and the conditions of that work; Other circulatory risk factors.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: A worker collapses with a cardiac event while doing ordinary duties and has a long smoking history. The note records that the manual still requires a significant employment contribution, including where vascular disease is present. The lawyer decides. The tool does not treat the collapse at work as enough.
Stop and hand it back when
- The event is before 3 December 2003.
- The diagnosis is not a circulatory event of the kind the manual describes.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the diagnosis and the work, using a firm-controlled tool, table the significant-contributing-factor rule for a heart attack or stroke from 3 December 2003. Do not decide the claim. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Ask whether the event is a heart attack injury or stroke injury as the manual describes that class.
- Use significant contributing factor, including for a spontaneous event.
- Do not import a nature-of-employment risk comparison. The manual does not state one.
- If the worker has died, keep the immediate-support exclusion on the death task.
Sources
- WorkSafe Victoria claims manual: define an injury · 2026-10-23
- WorkSafe Victoria: before making a work-related death claim · 2026-10-23
No generative-AI practice note of the Workplace Injury Commission, Medical Panels or a Victorian court was opened. Apply the forum's current direction before a document is lodged.
The manual does not set out the statutory definition item by item. Confirm the current definition before relying on its width.
If health or wage records leave the firm-controlled tool, decide whether a Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) breach is notifiable.