Impact of interventions to prevent asbestos-related respiratory disease in an exposed worker registry using a simplified G-computation.

ABSTRACT: The Ontario Asbestos Workers Registry is a regulatory exposure registry obligating employers to report the number of work hours with asbestos-containing materials for each of their workers. Currently, each worker is notified of the need for a medical examination once they have accrued 2000 reported hours of work with asbestos. We sought to evaluate the impact on disease prevention of alternative policies limiting asbestos work hours among registry participants. A cohort of 26 164 asbestos workers were followed for cancer and nonmalignant disease diagnoses between 1986 and 2019. Analyses of the association between cumulative asbestos work hours and respiratory disease incidence rates showed substantially elevated disease rates well before reaching 2000 asbestos work hours. Using a simplifie

SUBMITTER: DeBono NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12780772 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature