On 23 September 2025, the Public Health Act transitioned from the state-based Notifiable Dust Lung Disease Register to the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry. Prescribed medical practitioners are now required to notify the Commonwealth chief medical officer of a diagnosis of a person with a notifiable occupational respiratory disease, in the approved form and within 30 days from the day of diagnoses, to be included in the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry.
A notifiable occupational respiratory disease under the new provisions in the Act and Regulations means:
a medical condition (being pneumoconiosis, other than silicosis, cancer, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to the extent it’s likely to have been caused or exacerbated, in whole or in part, by exposure to inorganic dust), that is:
associated with a person’s respiratory system; and
likely to have been caused or exacerbated, in whole or in part, by the person’s work or workplace; but
does not include a medical condition that is a prescribed occupational respiratory disease under the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Act 2023 (Cth)
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