Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00030:reg:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00030
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7
Character Range: 1666–3355

7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about heat-induced burn and death from heat-induced burn.
Meaning of heat-induced burn
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, heat-induced burn:
(a)          means an injury to the skin and external body covering tissues due to transfer of energy into the tissue with external contact with flame, or heat; and
(b)          includes burns of deep tissues and organs that are part of a multiple burn injury that includes injury to the skin and external body covering tissues; and
(c)          excludes:
(i)            freezing cold injury (frostbite);
(ii)         electrical contact or electrical flash burns (electrical injury);
(iii)       chemical burns;
(iv)        radiation burns due to ionising radiation;
(v)          isolated retinal burn of the eye;
(vi)        photocontact dermatitis;
(vii)     friction burns (abrasion); and
(viii)   isolated burn of the internal body organs such as the respiratory tract, gastrointestinal tract and internal genitourinary tract.
Note 1: flame and heat burns may include the effects of incendiary devices such as white phosphorous grenades and rockets.
Note 2: heat-induced burn may include a systemic response of the body with systemic inflammation and vascular shock.
Death from heat-induced burn
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, heat-induced burn, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's heat-induced burn.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.