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Occupational disease
Domain: Health and safety at work => Diseases/accidents
Grammatical category
Noun phrase
Grammar notes
Countable
Definition
Disease that is judged to have been caused by or made worse by a person's work activity or environment.
Definition source
Jones 2003 (adapted from BSI's BS8800:1996 definition of occupational ill-health)
European legislation
Directive 89/391/EEC
British legislation
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995; The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985
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Synonyms
Occupational ill-health, Industrial disease
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