Journal of Clinical Toxicology
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Abstract

Specific Job-Exposure Records to Assess in Routine Present Carcinogenic Risks

Deschamps F

Objectives: The aim of the study is to use specific job-exposure records, to identify occupational exposures to carcinogens. Methodology: We built 105 forms corresponding to specific jobs, including the main risks. The occupational practitioner during the annual medical examination indicated by a cross the presence or lack of specific risks. Results: A specific job-exposure record was filled for each of 2017 workers between February 2004 and September 2007. Nine hundred and fifty three workers corresponding to 47% of the studied population were exposed during work to one carcinogen or more. Main carcinogenic exposures were Hepatitis B viruses (712 cases), environmental tobacco smoke (85 cases) and inorganic acids (81 cases). Discussion: The workers are exposed to occupational carcinogens, although most of them belong not to industrial but to tertiary sector, which gathered activities majority at the beginning of the new millennium.