Official UK occupational disease catalogue underpinning the no-fault Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit. 43 prescribed diseases in 4 lettered categories. Distinct from RIDDOR — IIDB is the benefit, RIDDOR is the reporting duty.
IIDB — benefit instrument
No-fault state benefit paid by DWP when occupational disablement reaches threshold (≥14% generally; ≥1% for some lung diseases). Civil claims separate; no US-style workers' compensation.
SI 1985/967 Schedule 1 + IIAC advice for additions.
RIDDOR — reporting instrument
Employer/responsible person must report to HSE online when a doctor diagnoses a specified occupational disease linked to specified work. Reg 8-9 of RIDDOR 2013.
HSE reportable incidents →Key work: Radiation workers, nuclear industry, radiography
Key work: Glassblowers, foundry workers, furnace operators (≥5 years exposure typically)
Key work: Compressed-air workers, divers
Key work: Prolonged repetitive movements (writing, keyboard, instrument)
Key work: Manual labour with severe/prolonged friction/pressure on hand
Key work: Manual labour causing severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at/about the knee
Key work: Manual labour causing severe or prolonged external friction or pressure at/about the elbow
Key work: Manual labour OR frequent/repeated movements of the hand/wrist
Key work: Noise >=85 dB(A) prolonged (use of pneumatic/percussive tools, machinery, weaving)
Surveillance: Audiometry health surveillance (Control of Noise at Work Regs 2005, Upper EAV 85 dB(A))
Key work: Hand-held vibrating tools (grinders, chainsaws, breakers); prescribed 1985
Surveillance: HAVS health surveillance tiers 1-5 (Control of Vibration at Work Regs 2005, EAV 2.5 m/s² A(8), ELV 5 m/s²)
Key work: Vibrating tools; prescribed from April 1993
Key work: Farmers/farm workers (long-term)
Key work: Coal miners (underground, long service)
Key work: Hand-held vibrating tools (added per IIAC)
Key work: Handling infected animals/hides/wool/bone
Key work: Contact with cattle/sheep/goats/pigs or their carcasses (farmers, abattoir, vets)
Key work: Work with rats/cattle/pigs, sewers, canals (rodent urine)
Key work: Contact with TB patients/material (healthcare, lab, mortuary)
Surveillance: NICE NG33; IGRA screening (sprint20)
Key work: Mouldy hay/vegetable matter, birds, mushroom compost, metalworking fluid mist
Key work: Animal handling, abattoir, veterinary
Key work: Contact with human blood/body fluids (healthcare, lab)
Surveillance: HBV vaccination + anti-HBs (sprint1); PEP (sprint21)
Key work: Needlestick/exposure to HIV-infected blood (healthcare)
Key work: Outdoor work in tick-endemic areas (forestry, conservation)
Key work: Contact with animals/birds/their products
Key work: Smelting, battery manufacture, paint stripping, scrap
Surveillance: Control of Lead at Work Regs 2002 (CLAW) — blood lead suspension levels
Key work: Match/fireworks/chemical manufacture
Key work: Smelting, pesticide/glass manufacture
Key work: Viscose rayon manufacture
Key work: Petrochemical, solvent use
Key work: Chlor-alkali, instrument/thermometer, dental amalgam (legacy)
Key work: Hardwood dust (furniture), leather dust, nickel refining
Key work: Aromatic amines (dye, rubber, MbOCA)
Key work: Chromium plating, tanning
Key work: Silica/coal/asbestos/other mineral dust
Key work: Cotton/flax dust (textile spinning)
Key work: Asbestos exposure (any)
Disablement assessed 100%; major UK asbestos legacy
Key work: Flour, animals, isocyanates, wood, latex, enzymes
Key work: Wet work, irritants, sensitisers (chromate, epoxy, rubber, nickel)
Key work: Isocyanates (leading UK cause), flour/grain, wood dust, soldering flux/colophony, latex, lab animals, glutaraldehyde
Surveillance: Respiratory questionnaire + serial peak flow + spirometry (COSHH)
Key work: Asbestos
Key work: Asbestos
Key work: Asbestos (occupational, defined exposure) / silica / certain processes
Key work: Coal miners (underground, >=20 years)
Employer/responsible person must report to HSE (online) when a doctor diagnoses a specified occupational disease linked to specified work
Devolved implementation
IIDB + RIDDOR are GB-wide (RIDDOR enforced by HSE/HSENI; IIDB administered by DWP across GB, parallel scheme in Northern Ireland via nidirect). No nation-specific disease-list divergence.
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