Capturing occupational risk of airborne disease: An international job-exposure matrix based on five exposure factors.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to construct a job-exposure matrix (JEM) for the risk of being infected by infectious agents through airborne or droplet transmission in an occupational setting, which might lead to a respiratory disease.

Methods

An established COVID-19-JEM formed the basis for the development of the general airborne infectious agents JEM. Nine researchers in occupational epidemiology from three European countries (Denmark, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom) discussed and agreed on which factors from the COVID-19-JEM were relevant and whether new factors or adjustments of risk levels were needed. Adjustments to the COVID-19 JEM were made in a structured iterative. based on an expert assessment, a JEM on solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure including info

SUBMITTER: Oude Hengel KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12415715 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature