---
title: "Request to preserve employment, product and insurance records in a dust claim"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/letter-preserve-dust-employment-product-records"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a21-letter-preserve-dust-employment-product-records"
area_id: "A21"
kind: "letter"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A21-DD20261023-2", "A21-DD20261023-13", "A21-T1-R12"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23"
---

# Request to preserve employment, product and insurance records in a dust claim

> A request that an employer, occupier, supplier or manufacturer keep employment, site, product and workers compensation insurance records while a dust claim is investigated.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/letter-preserve-dust-employment-product-records  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-23

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## Key facts

- Kind: Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
- Practice area: [Personal Injury & Compensation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation.md)
- Jurisdictions: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-23
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-23 against the 2 authorities it cites, for New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.

## When to use it

Use when those records may be destroyed in the ordinary course before a proceeding or a subpoena. The recipient is asked to keep them. The letter is not a subpoena, a court order, or a statutory hold.

## Used for these tasks

- [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)
- [Screen an engineered-stone exposure against the prohibition and the compensation path](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/screen-an-engineered-stone-exposure-against-the-prohibition-and-the-comp.md)
- [Prepare an occupational-disease or dust-disease file chronology and issues list](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/prepare-an-occupational-disease-or-dust-disease-file-chronology-and-issu.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may prepare the preservation request from the sites and years the lawyer has accepted, and the lawyer checks the recipient before it is sent.

**AI may:**

- Name the employer or supplier, the sites and the years from the accepted instructions
- List employment, product and insurance records in categories the lawyer has approved
- Ask for confirmation that the records will be kept

**AI must not:**

- Must not call this letter a subpoena, a court order, or a notice under an Act
- Must not say that destroying the records is a criminal offence
- Must not direct the recipient to process or sample engineered stone
- Must not invent a record the client hopes exists

**The lawyer checks:**

- The recipient is someone who may hold the records. A deregistered company is not written to at a stale address
- No preservation statute was opened. The letter stays a request
- If proceedings are on foot, the lawyer decides whether a subpoena is also required. The subpoena is a separate form
- The letter does not attach medical reports or the client's full history

## Authorities

- [SIRA, Application for workers compensation insurance claims, policy and settlement records (the employer is asked for policy and claims information before a search)](https://www.sira.nsw.gov.au/resources-library/workers-compensation-resources/forms/workers-and-claims/application-for-wci-insurance-records.pdf)
- [Safe Work Australia, Engineered stone ban (the product categories a preservation request may need to identify)](https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/safety-topic/hazards/silica/engineered-stone-ban)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/personal-injury-and-compensation/letter-preserve-dust-employment-product-records and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

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