The construction industry

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• Personal Author:
  Linch KD ; Liss, Gary M. ; Petsonk, Edward L.
• Description:
  Construction of domestic and commercial structures as well as roads and other public works is performed in virtually all societies, In 2007, 7.8 million workers were employed in the construction sector in the USA, representing 5-6% of total nonfarm employment (source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics Survey). Occupational health issues, including respiratory disorders, among construction workers are often quite challenging. The great variation in work processes and tasks, as well as the continually changing workplace settings often impede the ability of managers and workers to anticipate, document and prevent hazardous exposures. The multiplicity of potential respiratory hazards associated with construction jobs guarantees that many physicians will be challenged to manage respiratory diseases among construction workers and to assess the significance of job exposures on disease occurrence in the clinical findings. In this section, we discuss the types of exposures to respiratory hazards that may be encountered in the construction setting and the potential health effects, including (1) nonmalignant conditions; (2) malignancies; and (3) immunologic conditions, with an emphasis on asthma. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Aluminum Silicates Asbestos Construction Industry Dust Fungi Inorganic Chemicals Irritants Lung Lung Diseases Neoplasms Occupational Health Particulate Matter Quartz Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Silicon Dioxide

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• Keywords:
  Asbestos-dust Asbestos-fibers Cancer-rates Construction-industry Construction-workers Fibrous-dusts Fumes Fungal-diseases Gases Lung-cancer Lung-disorders Molds Particulate-dust Pneumoconiosis Pulmonary-disorders Pulmonary-system-disorders Quartz-dust Respirable-dust Respiratory-irritants Respiratory-system-disorders Silica-dusts Silicates Surveillance

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• ISBN:
  9780470515945
• Publisher:
  John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  273-289
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038264
• Citation:
  Occupational and environmental lung diseases: diseases from work, home, outdoor, and other exposures. Tarlo SM, Cullinan P, Nemery B, eds. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010 Nov; :273-289
• Editor(s):
  Tarlo SM; Cullinan P; Nemery B
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational and environmental lung diseases: diseases from work, home, outdoor, and other exposures
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192029/cdc_192029_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.67 MB ]