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Document ID (ISN)111340
CIS number 10-0809
ISSN - Serial title 0339-6517 - Documents pour le médecin du travail
Year 2009
Convention or series no. TA 79
Author(s) Crépy M.N.
Title Occupational skin diseases among painters
Original title Dermatoses professionnelles chez les peintres [in French]
Bibliographic information 3rd quarter 2008, No.115, p.413-426. Illus. 67 ref.
Internet access TA_79.pdf [in French]
Abstract Painters are exposed to a wide variety of products, including scouring agents, detergents, solvents, biocides, resin monomers and their hardening agents. Occupational skin diseases observed among painters essentially consist of irritation or allergic contact dermatitis. Contents of this information sheet on occupational skin diseases among building contractor painters: composition of products and exposures; aetiology; epidemiology; diagnosis in occupational settings; diagnosis in specialized medical institutions; prognosis; prevention; compensation.
Descriptors (primary) painting; skin diseases; construction industry; risk factors
Descriptors (secondary) France; occupational medicine; irritants; diagnosis; skin allergies; medical treatment; industrial physicians; limitation of exposure; compensation of occupational diseases
Document type D - Periodical articles
Subject(s) Construction industry
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Chemical safety
Browse category(ies) Skin diseases
Construction industry and civil engineering