STANDARDS OF CARE FOR OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA
- David Fishwick (d.fishwick{at}sheffield.ac.uk)
- Centre for Workplace Health, United Kingdom
- Lisa M Bradshaw (lisa.bradshaw{at}hsl.gov.uk)
- Centre for Workplace Health, United Kingdom
- Mandy Francis (mandy.francis{at}hsl.gov.uk)
- Centre for Workplace Health, United Kingdom
- Steven Naylor (steven.naylor{at}hsl.gov.uk)
- Centre for Workplace Health, United Kingdom
- Jon Ayres (j.g.ayres{at}abdn.ac.uk)
- University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Sherwood Burge (sherwood.burge{at}heartofengland.nhs.uk)
- Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, United Kingdom
- Jonathan M Corne (jonathan.corne{at}qmc.nhs.uk)
- Queen's Medical Centre, United Kingdom
- Paul Cullinan (p.cullinan{at}ic.ac.uk)
- National Heart & Lung Institute, United Kingdom
- David Hendrick (d.j.hendrick{at}ncl.ac.uk)
- Royal Victoria Infirmary, United Kingdom
- Jennifer Hoyle (jennifer.hoyle{at}pat.nhs.uk)
- North Manchester General Hospital, United Kingdom
- Maritta Jaakkola (m.jaakkola{at}bham.ac.uk)
- Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, United Kingdom
- Paul Nicholson (nicholson.pj{at}pg.com)
- Society of Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Occupational Medicine, BOHRF, United Kingdom
- Robert Niven (robert.niven{at}smuht.nwest.nhs.uk)
- North West Lung Centre, United Kingdom
- Tony Pickering (tony.pickering{at}manchester.ac.uk)
- North West Lung Centre, United Kingdom
- Roger Rawbone (roger{at}grawbone.freeserve.co.uk)
- HSE, United Kingdom
- Chris Stenton (chris.stenton{at}nuth.northy.nhs.uk)
- Royal Victoria Infirmary, United Kingdom
- Andrew D Curran (andrew.hsl.curran{at}hsl.gov.uk)
- Centre for Workplace Health, United Kingdom
- Published Online First 28 September 2007
Abstract
Occupational asthma remains a common disease in the UK, with up to 3000 new cases diagnosed each year. The Health and Safety
Executive (HSE) estimate the cost to our society to be over £1.1 billion for each 10-year period . In October 2001, the Health
and Safety Commission agreed a package of measures aimed at reducing the incidence of asthma caused by exposure to substances
in the workplace by thirty per cent by 2010. Key to this aim are primary prevention by proper risk assessment and exposure
control together with secondary prevention to ensure reduction in the delay between the development of allergic symptoms at
work (normally nasal or respiratory) and appropriate advice to the affected worker and workplace.
