coniosis
dust disease

Dust diseases affect the respiratory system and may take up to thirty years to become manifest.

"We're certainly concerned about them using that as the Trojan horse to wipe out dust disease litigation."

He was the first judge to hear a dust diseases case in the tribunal after it was created in 1989.

The tribunal deals with claims relating to death or personal injury resulting from certain dust diseases and other dust-related conditions.

There are 29 "obligatory" symbols representing important features related to dust diseases of the lungs and other etiologies.

They live off salt and fresh water fish, causing a type of fish velvet disease (also called gold dust disease).

Dust diseases levy.

Workers' Compensation (Dust Diseases) Act 1942.

Annual Review, Dust Diseases Tribunal of NSW, 2004.

Dust Diseases Tribunal Act 1989 (NSW)

The Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales was established on 21 July 1989 as a specialist court to deal with claims made for dust related illnesses.

Velvet disease, also called gold dust disease is a fish disease caused by dinoflagellate parasites of the genus Piscinoodinium, which gives the fish a dusty, slimy look.

Judge John O'Meally (President of the Dust Diseases Tribunal) rules in favour of Banton, but the fund contests the judgement.

Three years later, he joined the Medical Research Council (MRC), and became involved with much of the MRC's early research into dust diseases in coal miners.

The Honourable Judge John Lawrence O'Meally (AM RFD) (born 1939) was president of the Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales.

On the abolition of the Compensation Court in 2003, he was appointed to the District Court of New South Wales and the Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales.

Miners' Lung: A History of Dust Disease in British Coal Mining by Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston is a 2007 book (ISBN 978-0-7546-3673-1) which is part of the Studies in Labour History series.

While other companies were involved in similar asbestos-related activities, most notably CSR Limited, more than 50% of claims made to the NSW Dust Diseases Tribunal in 2002 were brought against companies in the James Hardie group.

Judges of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales and judges sitting in the Workers' Compensation Court of NSW and the Dust Diseases Tribunal wear the same court dress as a judge of the Supreme Court sitting civilly.