Industry/Job Type |
Causative Agent/s |
Animal handlers: laboratory/farm/butcher |
Animal protein (muscle, dander, urine, secretion) insects, moulds, mites |
Bakers, millers, farmers |
Flour, grain, soybean, sesame seed, amylase, mites, moulds, weevil
|
Clothing, textile |
Wool, silk, reactive dyes, amines, enzymes, vegetable gums |
Detergent manufacture |
Enzymes |
Food processors |
Seafood, sulphites, flour, spices, egg protein, lactalbumin, coffee, tea, garlic, mushroom |
Foundries |
Resins, isocyanates |
Furniture, cabinetry, sawmills |
Wood dust, urea formaldehyde |
Hairdressing |
Persulphates, henna, sericin, vegetable gums |
Horticulture, florists, forestry |
Flowers, grass, seeds, moulds, insects, pesticide |
Hospital, medical laboratories, dental |
Latex, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, mercury, acrylates |
Metal refining, plating, grinding |
Platinum salts, chrome, nickel, cobalt, vanadium, mineral oils |
Pharmaceutical manufacture, mixing |
Antibiotics, enzymes |
Plastics, rubber, adhesives: manufacture/forming/application |
Isocyanates, anhydrides, amines, acrylates, epoxy resins |
Printing |
Vegetable gums |
Soldering, electronics |
Colophony, other fluxes, amines |
Spraypainting, coating |
Isocyanates, hardening agents, amines |
Welding |
Fluxes, metal fumes |