A claim can be made with the Dust Disease Board and/or the Dust Disease Tribunal.

You are entitled to make a claim upon the Dust Disease Board provided that you:

1. Were exposed to dust, such as asbestos or sor silica while employed in New South Wales.
2. Have contracted a nominated disease such as asbestosis or mesothelioma.

Should you meet the above criteria you may be entitled to weekly payments of compensation for your loss of wages and have all of your related medical expenses paid for.

Additionally you are entitled to make a claim upon the Dust Disease Tribunal for lump sum compensation. In order to do so you need to establish that one or more of your employers or manufacturers of asbestos products were negligent and that as a consequence of that negligence you now suffer from the dust disease.

If you are awarded a lump sum of damages from the Tribunal your rights to weekly compensation and medical expenses from the Dust Diseases Board continues.