Special issue on work-related asthma

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• Personal Author:
  Valiante D
• Description:
  The risk of developing work-related asthma is a dose-related response. However, on many occasions followup to the workplace of a patient with work-related asthma has not found elevated or even any measureable air levels of the suspedcted workplace allergen. In some cases, the history will reveal changes in production between the onset of asthma and the inspection. In other cases, a history of spills is elicited. Studies have found a dose-response relationship between the number of spills and disease. Air levels will be low or unmeasureable on the day of inspection since no spill is taking place that day. Proper spill clean-up procedures, appropriate personal protective equipment and preventive maintenance can protect workers from exposure during spills. In some situations where air levels are unmeasurable, there is also no history of spills or production changes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asthma Asthma, Occupational Dust Lung Occupational Health Public Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Bronchial-asthma Exposure-levels Hazards Public-health Pulmonary-function Pulmonary-system Pulmonary-system-disorders Respirable-dust Respiration Respiratory-system-disorders Risk-factors Work-environment Workers

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-24
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043665
• Citation:
  Occupational Health Surveillance Update 2006 May; :1-24
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040930
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Health Surveillance Update
• End Date:
  20060929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:79037b492a4d0e7439531e2ca41c5559f1f62d980f9ed544b2b428dd6b88129695fd3fdeb709bfb253937bd1112a28487250f7467473afb92a82d5cc238651bd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195501/cdc_195501_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 527.59 KB ]