Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00009:reg:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00009
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7
Character Range: 1670–3979

7             Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about irritant contact dermatitis and death from irritant contact dermatitis.
Meaning of irritant contact dermatitis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, irritant contact dermatitis:
(a)          means inflammation of an area of the skin from exposure to an irritant that has been applied to the same area of skin; and
(b)           involves direct tissue injury; and
(c)          includes irritant contact dermatitis that is due to cutaneous exposure from airborne irritants; and
(d)          excludes:
(i)            allergic contact dermatitis;
(ii)         atopic dermatitis (eczema);
(iii)       dermatitis due to extremes of weather, friction, solar radiation or other forms of radiation;
(iv)        photocontact dermatitis;
(v)          systemic allergic dermatitis; and
(vi)        urticaria.
            Note: Irritant contact dermatitis typically presents as a well-demarcated red rash in an area of skin that has come into contact with an irritant. It may be acute, with swelling and blistering of affected skin or chronic, with dryness, scaling, thickening or fissuring of affected skin. Irritant contact dermatitis can affect the skin of the eyelids and surrounding the mouth.
(3)          While irritant contact dermatitis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code L22 or L24, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of irritant contact dermatitis is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from irritant contact dermatitis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, irritant contact dermatitis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's irritant contact dermatitis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.