Work-related respiratory disease in employees leaving an electronics factory.
- 1 February 1979
- Vol. 34 (1), 19-22
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.34.1.19
Abstract
Examination of the records of employees leaving an electronics factory over 3 1/2 yr showed that a significantly greater proportion left the shop floor (where soldering took place) because of ill health than left the stores and office areas. This difference was largely due to work-related respiratory disease in those whose job was soldering. Shop floor workers leaving for health reasons also had increased sickness certification due to respiratory illness compared to store and office workers. Work-related respiratory illness apparently is a significant cause of morbidity and loss of employment in solderers working at the factory. This is a longstanding problem with its onset before the 1st recorded cases of occupational asthma caused by solder flux containing colophony.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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