My proposed Bill would: • Establish a Scottish Employment Injuries Advisory Council (SEIAC) as an independent advisory non-departmental public body. • Give the SEIAC duties to: 1 o scrutinise legislative proposals for the overarching design of the employment injuries assistance (EIA) system and entitlement policy; and o continually advise and recommend changes to the EIA entitlement policy and its design. • Mandate the membership and membership balance of the Council, including the representation of workers and their trade union representatives on the Council. • Ensure the Council has legal freedom, so long as it can meet its duties, to (a) investigate and review emerging industrial and employment hazards which result in disablement through disease or injury (in Scotland and in other advanced economies); and, (b) commission its own research in order to make recommendations for ongoing evolution of the EIA design and entitlement policy. 9.