Up to date info taken form the industrial diseases benefits website
http://www.ssani.gov.uk/gbi/benefits/PrescribedDiseases.htm
NB Self employed specifically excluded from this benefit.
It is IIAC who decide if a disease should be prescribed
www.iiac.org.uk
From their website
"IIAC is reviewing Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) at present. We are
reviewing nerve conduction studies. Our report will be published, probably,
toward the end of 2003 or early in 2004"
A11.
Prescribed disease or injury
Episodic blanching, occurring throughout the year, affecting the middle or
proximal, phalanges or in the case of a thumb the proximal phalanx, of:
(a) in the case of a person with 5 fingers (including thumb) on one hand,
any 3 of those fingers, or
(b) in the case of a person with only 4 such fingers, any 2 of those
fingers, or
(c) in the case of a person with less than 4 such fingers, any one of
those fingers or, as the case may be, the one remaining finger (vibration
white finger).
Any occupation involving
(a) The use of hand-held chain saws in forestry; or
(b) the use of hand held rotary tools in grinding or in the sanding or
polishing of metal, or the holding of material being ground, or metal being
sanded or polished, by rotary tools; or
(c) the use of hand-held percussive metal-working tools, or the holding of
metal being worked upon by percussive tools, in riveting, caulking,
chipping, hammering, fettling or swaging; or
(d) the use of hand-held powered percussive drills or hand-held powered
percussive hammers in mining, quarrying, demolition, or on roads or
footpaths, including road construction; or
(e) the holding of material being worked upon by pounding machines in shoe
manufacture.
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 3:53 PM
Subject: DSS pension
> Hi folks
>
> Does anyone know if the criteria for an occupational pension due to
> Vibration White Finger has changed?
>
> The criteria used to be episodic blanching to the middle or proximal
> phalange (proximal for the thumb) on 3 digits (for people with all 5
digits)
> on one hand.
>
> Thanks
>
> Craig Graham
>
>
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