Fragrances & Work-Related Asthma

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  California. Department of Public Health
• Description:
  Fragrance ingredients used in perfumes, personal care products, cleaning products, and air fresheners can trigger asthma. Fragranced products are used in many California workplaces and have been associated with over 300 cases of work-related asthma. A new analysis of fragrances and work-related asthma found that perfume was the ninth most common exposure reported by all work-related asthma cases tracked by the California Department of Public Health's Work-Related Asthma Prevention Program (WRAPP). The report also found that almost a quarter of the fragrance cases were new-onset asthma, meaning that workers reported no prior history of asthma. WRAPP published the findings in the Journal of Asthma in March 2017. To help California workers and employers address fragrances and work-related asthma, WRAPP created a new web page dedicated to this issue. The web page features relevant publications, a model fragrance-free workplace policy, and resources to find products that do not contain fragrances. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asthma Asthma, Occupational Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Cleaning Compounds Occupational Asthma Respiratory Diseases Respiratory Irritants Work Environment
• Publisher:
  California Department of Public Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059713
• Citation:
  Occupational Health Watch: August 2017. Richmond, CA: California Department of Public Health, 2017 Aug; :1-2
• Email:
  OHW@cdph.ca.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Institute
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Health Watch
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d31489fc690f7fe6f812178c38399ce3bd05ad59ef0e114306fd56c61c6f69369c95b3946fec69b30c97425c2da8730a43bf1ce5c289cf7abe41a56e00f5a91c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223839/cdc_223839_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 109.83 KB ]