Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C00952:schedule:1:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C00952
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 3/6)
Character Range: 33754–37097

environmental agent from the specified list means:
(a) beta-lactam antibiotics;
(b) histidine contaminated fish (scombroid syndrome);
(c) latex;
(d) succinylated gelatin (Gelofusine); or
(e) other drug, food or agent where there is evidence of an associated systemic allergic reaction.
       dyslipidaemia means persistently abnormal blood lipid levels, diagnosed by a medical practitioner and evidenced by:
(a) a total serum cholesterol level greater than 5.5 mmol/L; or
(b) a serum low density lipoprotein level greater than 4.0 mmol/L; or
(c) a serum high density lipoprotein cholesterol level less than 1.0 mmol/L; or
(d) the regular administration of drug therapy to normalise blood lipid levels.
       extreme cold means zero degrees Celsius or below.
       extreme heat means 40 degrees Celsius or above.

     eyewitness means a person who experiences an incident first hand and can give direct evidence of it.  This excludes persons exposed only to public broadcasting or mass media coverage of the incident.
       heatwave means three or more days of unusually high maximum and minimum temperatures.
       hypercoagulable state as specified means any one of the following:
(a) acquired activated protein C resistance;
(b) acquired antithrombin III deficiency;
(c) acquired dysfibrinogenaemia;
(d) acquired protein C deficiency;
(e) acquired protein S deficiency;
(f) antiphospholipid syndrome;
(g) aplastic anaemia;
(h) disseminated intravascular coagulation;
(i) essential thrombocythaemia;
(j) haemolytic uraemic syndrome;
(k) heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia;
(l) hyperfibrinogenaemia;
(m) hyperproteinaemia;
(n) hyperviscosity syndrome;
(o) immune thrombocytopaenic purpura;
(p) myeloma;
(q) myeloproliferative disease;
(r) nephrotic syndrome;
(s) paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria;
(t) polycythaemia vera;
(u) secondary thrombocytosis; or
(v) sickle cell disorder.
       ischaemic heart disease—see subsection 7(2).
       MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
       MET means a unit of measurement of the level of physical exertion.  1 MET = 3.5 ml of oxygen/kg of body weight per minute, 1.0 kcal/kg of body weight per hour or resting metabolic rate.
       organophosphorus ester means an agent used to inhibit acetylcholinesterase, and includes the organophosphate pesticides chlorpyrifos, dichlorvos, EPN (ethyl p-nitrophenyl theonobenzenephosphonate), leptophos, methamidophos, mipafox (diisopropyl phosphorofluoridate), omethoate, parathion, TOCP (tri-ortho-cresyl phosphate), trichlorfon and trichlornat.
       pack-year of cigarettes, or the equivalent thereof in other tobacco products means a calculation of consumption where one pack-year of cigarettes equals 20 tailor-made cigarettes per day for a period of one calendar year, or 7 300 cigarettes.  One tailor-made cigarette approximates one gram of tobacco or one gram of cigar or pipe tobacco by weight.  One pack-year of tailor-made cigarettes equates to 7.3 kilograms of smoking tobacco by weight.  Tobacco products mean cigarettes, pipe tobacco or cigars, smoked alone or in any combination.
       relevant service means:
(a) eligible war service (other than operational service) under the VEA;
(b) defence service (other than hazardous service and British nuclear test defence service) under the VEA; or
(c) peacetime