0352 Does the size of a company make a difference to the prevalence of exposure?

0352 Does the size of a company make a difference to the prevalence of exposure?

About two-thirds of workers in high-income countries work in micro (200 employees) perhaps because they are more convenient to study. For example, a survey of exposure to silica in the UK undertook 44 site visits, with none of the visits involving sole-trader or micro companies.We undertook a nation...

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Veröffentlicht in:Occupational and environmental medicine (London, England) England), 2017-08, Vol.74 (Suppl 1), p.A109
Hauptverfasser: Fritschi, Lin, El-Zaemey, Sonia, Darcey, Ellie, Reid, Alison, Rushton, Lesley, McElvenny, Damien
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Employees
Ethylene
Ethylene oxide
Exposure
Flour
Flowers
Hazards
Isocyanates
Occupational exposure
Occupational health
Population studies
Research projects
Silica
Silicon dioxide
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Zusammenfassung:About two-thirds of workers in high-income countries work in micro (200 employees) perhaps because they are more convenient to study. For example, a survey of exposure to silica in the UK undertook 44 site visits, with none of the visits involving sole-trader or micro companies.We undertook a national population-based survey of nearly 5000 Australian workers to examine the occupational prevalence of exposure to 27 asthmagen groups. Seventy percent worked in companies with
ISSN:1351-0711
1470-7926
DOI:10.1136/oemed-2017-104636.287