Definition regarding 'serious injury or illness'

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The release is a Comcare guide, WHS 029, titled "Guide to Work Health and Safety Incident Notification," which explains when employers must notify Comcare of notifiable incidents under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011. It sets out the statutory definition of a serious injury or illness in section 36, with a table of qualifying treatments (in-patient admission, amputation, serious head, eye, burn, spinal and laceration injuries, and treatment within 48 hours of substance exposure) and examples of what does not qualify. It also covers specified infections and occupational zoonoses, then gives five worked notification scenarios, including an assault in a car park, a volunteer burn injury at a conference, a heart attack at work and a motor vehicle collision. Numerous passages are withheld under section 22 of the FOI Act, and no claims data or inspector findings appear.