Firefighters' Occupational Disease Regulation

Contents
	1	Definition
	2	Prescribed occupational diseases
	3	Minimum cumulative periods of employment prescribed
	4	Minimum non-smoking periods prescribed for previous smokers

Definition

1 In this regulation, "Act" means the Workers Compensation Act.

Prescribed occupational diseases

2 Each of primary leukemia, primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, primary site bladder cancer, primary site brain cancer, primary site colorectal cancer, primary site kidney cancer, primary site testicular cancer and primary site ureter cancer is prescribed as an occupational disease for the purposes of section 6.1 (2) of the Act.

Minimum cumulative periods of employment prescribed

3 The minimum cumulative period set out in Column 2 of the Table is prescribed for the purposes of section 6.1 (3) (a) of the Act in respect of the occupational disease set out opposite it in Column 1.

Table
Item	Column 1 Occupational Disease	Column 2 Minimum Cumulative Period
1	primary leukemia	5 years
2	primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma	20 years
3	primary site bladder cancer	15 years
4	primary site brain cancer	10 years
5	primary site colorectal cancer	20 years
6	primary site kidney cancer	20 years
7	primary site lung cancer	15 years
8	primary site testicular cancer	20 years
9	primary site ureter cancer	15 years
10	primary site esophageal cancer	25 years

[am. B.C. Reg. 123/2011.]

Minimum non-smoking periods prescribed for previous smokers

4 In the case of a worker who does not meet the requirement of 6.1 (3.1) (a) of the Act, the minimum period for the purposes of section 6.1 (3.1) (b) of the Act is prescribed as follows:

(a) if the worker smoked cigarettes,

(i) 6 consecutive years, if the worker smoked, on average, fewer than 7 cigarettes per week,

(ii) 6 consecutive years, if the worker smoked, on average, 1 to 9 cigarettes per day,

(iii) 13 consecutive years, if the worker smoked, on average, 10 to 19 cigarettes per day,

(iv) 18 consecutive years, if the worker smoked, on average, 20 cigarettes per day,

(v) 23 consecutive years, if the worker smoked, on average, 21 to 39 cigarettes per day, and

(vi) 28 consecutive years, if the worker smoked, on average, 40 or more cigarettes per day;

(b) 8 consecutive years, if the worker smoked, on average, one or more cigars or pipes per day but did not smoke cigarettes;

(c) if the worker smoked cigarettes in combination with cigars or pipes, the periods prescribed in paragraph (a) apply with a cigar or pipe counting as a cigarette.