Exposure
Diesel-exhausts, Formaldehyde, and Organic solvents
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Expert rated exposures on 3 chemical compounds:

  • Diesel-exhausts
  • Formaldehyde
  • Organic solvents

Exposures are given both as probability of exposure, intensity of exposure for the exposed, and as a combined measure of probability and intensity.

Name: NOCCA-JEM

 

Coverage

295 titles in DISCO-88. Translated from the Nordisk Yrkes Klassifikation (NYK – Nordic Job Classification).

Job Classification

DISCO-88

Uncertainty in Exposure

The exposures were expert assessed.

Calendar Period
Periode included is 1945-1995.
Demographics
None
References & JEM developer
Key Developer: Johnni Hansen

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Affiliation at the time of development: The Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Reference: 

Construction of job-exposure matrices for the Nordic Occupational Cancer Study

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Kauppinen T, Heikkila P, Plato N, et al. Construction of job-exposure matrices for the Nordic Occupational Cancer Study (NOCCA). Acta Oncol 2009; 48: 791-800.

Mikkelsen S, Petersen R, Lund CB, Petersen JA, Thomsen JF. Reliability and validity of expert assessments of hand‐wrist physical exposures. Am J Ind Med. 2021;65(2):132‐142. doi:10.1002/ajim.23318