TITLE 77: PUBLIC HEALTH
CHAPTER I: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
SUBCHAPTER p: HAZARDOUS AND POISONOUS SUBSTANCES
PART 840 ILLINOIS HEALTH AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES REGISTRY
SECTION 840.310 METHODS OF REPORTING OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE

 

Section 840.310  Methods of Reporting Occupational Disease

 

a)         All registered, permitted or licensed hospital laboratories, clinical laboratories, local health authorities or other facilities shall provide the Department with information on elevated blood lead level cases within 7 business days of receipt of results.

 

b)         Any person, clinical or hospital laboratory, hospital, or other facility required to report to the Department the specified occupational diseases shall use the terminology the Department has established. Otherwise, the following terminology shall be interpreted as indicating a reportable occupational disease:

 

1)         Probable;

 

2)         Consistent with;

 

3)         Compatible with;

 

4)         Suspected;

 

5)         Extension or invasion 'to', 'onto', 'into', 'out onto'.

 

c)         If the following terminology is used to report occupational disease specified by the Department to be collected and submitted on forms in Appendix C, it shall be interpreted as being of a nature that is not necessary for reporting to the Department:

 

1)         Questionable;

 

2)         Possible;

 

3)         Suggests;

 

4)         Equivocal;

 

5)         Rule out;

 

6)         Very close to;

 

7)         Worrisome.

 

d)         Determination of whether or not a given condition is reportable shall be made by the use of the International Classification of Diseases – 9th Revision – Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes.

 

e)         The specified diagnosis of occupationally related diseases which shall be collected from existing sources data base are:

 

1)         Asbestosis, ICD-9-CM code 501;

 

2)         Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis, ICD-9-CM code 500;

 

3)         Lead Poisoning - (Elevated Blood Lead Level), ICD-9-CM code 984.0 - 984.9; and

 

4)         Silicosis, ICD-9-CM code 502.

 

 f)         All existing reporting sources data base provided to the Department shall use these ICD-9-CM codes for the purpose in consistency of data collection.

 

(Source:  Amended at 17 Ill. Reg. 2319, effective February 10, 1993)