Employment Injury Insurance
Employment Injury Insurance is a compulsory social insurance covering all employees as defined by the Labour Law. The employment injury insurance scheme in Cambodia is being implemented in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Kampong Speu during the development phase and will be steadily expanded to other provinces and smaller enterprises. On the other hand, NSSF cannot cover the small enterprises, having less than 8 employees, which are not viable to fulfill the minimum requirements yet. The employment injury scheme covers the contingencies of accidents at work, occupational diseases, and commuting accident.
According to the Sub-Decree concerning the establishment of NSSF, accident at work refers to the accident inflicted on the body of the employee during working hours, regardless of the cause and employee’s fault.
Accident occurs along the direct route between the employee’s residence and workplace is considered as commuting accident.
Occupational disease arises out of the exposure to the harmful substances or hazardous condition in the processes. The employment Injury Scheme covers an extensive list of occupational diseases, which is expanded with the discovery of new diseases.
| Description of Occupational Diseases | Nature of Occupation |
|---|---|
| 1. Poisoning by: | Any occupation involving: |
| (a) Lead or compound of lead: | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of lead or a compound of lead or a substance containing lead |
| (b) Phosphorus | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of phosphorus or a compound of phosphorus or a substance containing phosphorus |
| (c) Arsenic | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of arsenic or a compound of arsenic or a substance containing arsenic or exposure to any solution containing arsenic or a compound of arsenic |
| (d) Mercury | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of mercury or a compound of mercury or a substance containing mercury |
| (e) carbon bisulphide | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes or vapor of carbon bisulphide or a compound of carbon bisulphide or a substance containing carbon bisulphide |
| (f) Benzene or a homologue | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes of, or vapor containing, benzene or any of its homologues and their amino and nitro derivatives |
| (g) Manganese | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of manganese or a compound of manganese or a substance containing manganese |
| (h) Beryllium | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of beryllium or a compound of beryllium or a substance containing beryllium |
| (i) Cadmium | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of cadmium or a compound of cadmium or a substance containing cadmium |
| (j) Antimony | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of antimony or a compound of antimony or a substance containing antimony |
| (k) Fluorine | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of fluorine or a compound of fluorine or a substance containing fluorine |
| (l) Nickel | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of nickel or a compound of nickel or a substance containing nickel |
| (m) Chromium | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of chromium or a compound of chromium or a substance containing chromium |
| (n) Organ chlorine, organophosphate, carbonate, nitro phenol, pentachlorophenol, dimethyldithio carbonate or compounds of chlorophenoxy and dipyridyl | the use of handling of organ chlorine, organophosphate, carbonate, nitro phenol, pentachlorophenol, diethyldithiocarbamate or compounds of chlorophenoxy and dipyridyl for the destruction of pests or vermin |
| (o) Nitrous fumes | the use or handling of nitric acid or exposure to nitrous fumes |
| (p) Rengas wood | the manipulation of rengas wood or any process in or incidental to the manufacture of articles there from |
| (q) Hydrogen cyanide or hydrogen sulphide gas | The use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes or vapor of hydrogen cyanide or hydrogen sulphide |
| (r) The halogen derivatives of aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons | the production, liberation or use of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series or aromatic series and their halogen derivatives |
| (s) Alcohols, glycols, ketones or aldehydes | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes or vapor of alcohols, glycols, ketones or aldehydes |
| (t) carbon monoxide gas | the use or handling of, or exposure to, carbon monoxide gas, and any process involving the use of - |
| (u) Diethylene dioxide (dioxane) | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes of or vapor containing diethylene dioxide |
| 2. Anthrax | Any occupation involving the handling of wool, hair, bristle, hides or skins or other animal products or residues, or contact with animals infected with anthrax |
| 3. Glanders | Any occupation involving contact with equine animals or their carcasses |
| 4. Leptospirosis | Any occupation involving work in rat or other rodent infested places and any occupation involving the care or handling of dogs, cattle, swine and horses or any other infected animals |
| 5. (a) Ulceration of the corneal surface of the eye (b) Localized new growth of the skin, papillomatous or keratotic (c) Epitheliomatous cancer or ulceration of the skin, due in any case to tar, pitch, paddy husk, bitumen, mineral oil(including the manufacture of mineral waters, fermentation in breweries and the formation of lime in lime kilns paraffin), soot or any compound, product, or residue or any of thes substances; dynamite and gunpowder for blasting in subterranean galleries; blasting, illuminating gas; power of producer gas; blast furnaces, furnaces and stoves for the burning of charcoal coke and other fuel; gas engines |
Any occupation involving the use or handling of, or exposure to, tar, pitch, paddy husk, bitumen, mineral oil (including paraffin), soot, organic dust or any compound, product, or residue of any of these substances |
| 6. Chrome ulceration | Any occupation involving the use or handling of chromic acid, chromate or bichromate of ammonium, potassium, zinc or sodium, or any preparation or solution containing any of these substances |
| 7. Inflammation, ulceration or malignant diseases of the skin or subcutaneous tissues or of the bones, or, leukemia, or anemia of the plastic type, due to X-ray, ionizing panicles, radium or other radio-active substances or other forms of radiant energy | Any occupation involving exposure to X-rays, ionizing particles, radium, or other radio-active substances or other forms of radiant energy |
| 8. Toxic jaundice | Any occupation involving the use or handling of halogenated hydrocarbon or nitric or amidoderivatives of benzene or other poisonous substances |
| 9. Heat radiation cataract | Any occupation involving frequent or prolonged exposure to the glare of, or rays from, molten glass or molten or red-hot metal or frequent or prolonged exposure to radiation |
| 10. Subcutaneous cellulites or acute bursitis arising at or about the knee(Beat knee) | Any occupation involving manual labor causing severe or prolonged friction or pressure at or about the knee |
| 11. Subcutaneous cellulites of the hand (Beat hand) | Any occupation involving manual labor causing severe or prolonged friction or pressure on the hand |
| 12. Subcutaneous cellulites or acute bursitis arising at or about the elbow(Beat elbow) | Any occupation involving manual labor causing severe or prolonged friction or pressure at or about the elbow |
| 13. Inflammation of the synovial lining of the wrist joint and tendon sheaths | Any occupation involving manual labor or frequent or repeated movement of the hand or wrist |
| 14. Heat cramp or heat stroke | Any occupation involving excessive exposure to heat |
| 15. Cramp of the hand or forearm due to repetitive movements | Any occupation involving prolonged periods of hand writing, typing or other repetitive movements of the fingers, hand or arm |
| 16. Compressed air illness | Any occupation or process carried on in compressed-air or under water |
| 17. (a) Tuberculosis or leprosy | Any occupation involving close or frequent contact with a source or sources of tuberculosis or leprosy infection by reason of employment: (a) in the medical treatment or nursing of a person or persons suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy or in a service ancillary to such treatment or nursing; (b) in attendance upon a person or persons suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy where the need for such attendance arises by reason of physical or mental infirmity; (c) as a research worker engaged in research in connection with tuberculosis or leprosy; or (d) as a laboratory worker, pathologist or post-mortem worker, where the occupation involves working with material which is a source of tuberculosis or leprosy infection or in any occupation ancillary to such employment |
| (b) Viral hepatitis | Any occupation involving: (a) close and frequent contact with human blood or human blood products; or (b) close and frequent contact with a source of viral hepatitis infection by reason of employment in the medical treatment or nursing of a person or persons suffering from viral hepatitis, or in a service ancillary to such treatment or nursing |
| 18. Hearing impairment caused by noise | Any occupation involving excessive exposure to industrial noise of high sound pressure level in excess of 85 decibels over 8-hour period |
| 19. Occupational dermatitis | Any occupation involving the handling of mineral oils, acids, alkalis, dusts or any other external agents capable of irritating the skin |
| 20. Diseases caused by vibration(disorders of muscles, tendons, bones, joints, peripheral blood vessels or nerves) | Any occupation involving subjection to vibration |
| 21. Lung cancer or mesothelioma caused by asbestos | Any occupation involving the mining, processing or handling of materials containing asbestos |
| 22. Broncho pulmonary disease | Any occupation involving the substantial exposure to the inhalation of hard-metal dust, cotton dust, flax or hemp or sisal dust |
| 23. Pulmonary irritation | Any occupation involving the inhalation of sulphur oxides, chlorine, phosgene, ammonia, bromine, ozone, or nitrogen dioxide |
| 24. Occupational asthma caused by sensitising agents or irritants | Any occupation involving the exposure to the inhalation of mineral dusts such as cement, copper, zinc, animal dusts such as bone or hair, or dusts of plant origin such as cotton, wood, flax, jute, rice husks, cork, spices, hemp, sisal, tobacco, tea, flour or gases or vapors of toluene diisocyanate of formaldehyde |
| 25. Pneumoconiosis (silicosis, asbestosis, anthracosilicosis, stannosis, siderosis or siderosilicosis) | Any occupation involving: (a) the mining, quarrying or working of silica rock or the working of dried quartzose and or any dry deposit or dry residue of silica or any dry admixture containing such materials; (b) the handling of any of the materials specified in subparagraph(a) in or incidental to any of the operations mentioned therein or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such operations; (c) the breaking, crushing or grinding of flint or the working or handling of broken, crushed or ground flint or materials containing such flint or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such operations; (d) sand blasting by means of compressed air with the use of quarose sand or crushed silica rock or flint or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such sandblasting; (e) the grinding of mineral graphite, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such grinding; (f) work in a foundry or the performance of, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from, any of the following operations: (i) the freeing of steel castings from adherent siliceous substance; or (ii) the freeing of metal castings from adherent siliceous substance; (g) the manufacture of china or earthenware (including sanitary earthenware, electrical earthenware tiles), and any occupation involving substantial exposure to the dust arising there from; (h) the dressing of granite or any igneous rock by masons or the crushing of such materials or substantial exposure to the dust arising from such operations; (i) the use, or preparation for use, of a grindstone or substantial exposure to the dust arising there from; (j) boiler scaling or substantial exposure to the dust arising there from; (k) the working or handling of asbestos or any admixture of asbestos, or the manufacture or repair of asbestos textiles or other articles containing asbestos, or substantial exposure to the dust arising from any of the foregoing operations; (l) work in any mine (underground or aboveground) in which one of the objects of the mining operations is the getting of any mineral, or the working or handling of any minerals extracted there from, or any operation incidental thereto; (m) the manufacture of carbon electrodes for use in the electrolytic extraction of aluminum oxide, and any occupation involving substantial exposure to the dust arising there from; (n) exposure to the inhalation of dust containing iron and silica or hematite; (o) exposure to the inhalation of tin dust or fumes |
| 26. Cancer caused by: | Any occupation involving: |
| (a) Aminobiphenyl | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of 4-aminobiphenyl or a substance containing 4-aminobiphenyl |
| (b) Arsenic | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of arsenic or a substance containing arsenic |
| (c) Benzene | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of benzene or a substance containing benzene |
| (d) Benzedrine | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of Benzedrine or a substance containing Benzedrine |
| (e) Bischloro methyl ether | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of bis-chloro methyl ether or a substance containing bis-chloromethyl ether |
| (f) Chromium | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of chromium or a substance containing chromium |
| (g) Haematite | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of haematite or a substance containing haematite |
| (h) Mustard gas | the use or handling of, or exposure to, mustard gas or a substance containing mustard gas |
| (i) 6-naphthylamine | the use or handling of, or exposure to the fumes, dust or vapor of B-naphthalene-amine or a substance containing 6-naphthylamine |
| (j) Nickel | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of nickel or a substance containing nickel |
| (k) Soots, tars and oils | the use or handling of, or exposure to, soots, tars and oils |
| (l) Vinyl chloride | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of vinyl chloride or a substance containing vinyl chloride |
| (m) Paniculate polycyclic aromatichydrocarbon | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon or a substance containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon |
| (n) Acrylonitrile | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of acrylonitrile or a substance containing acrylonitrile |
| (o) 1, 2-dibromoethane (ethylenedibromide) | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of ethylene dibromide or a substance containing dibromide |
| (p) Wood dust | the use or handling of, or exposure to, wood dust arising from the manufacture of wood products |
| (q) Benz-o-pyrene | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of benz-o-pyrene or a substance containing Benz-o-pyrene |
| (r) Formaldehyde | the use or handling of, or exposure to, the gas of formaldehyde |
| 27. Fibrotic diseases of the lung caused by | |
| (a) Talc: | Any occupation involving-the use or handling of, or exposure to, dust of talc or a substance containing talc |
| (b) Aluminum | Any occupation involving the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of aluminum or a substance containing aluminium |
| (c) Coal | Any occupation involving the use or handling of, or exposure to, the fumes, dust or vapor of coal or a substance containing coal |
| (d) Paddy husk | Any occupation involving the use or handling of, or exposure to, paddy husk or dust or a substance containing paddy husk |