Health Surveillance
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Health surveillance can detect occupational asthma at an earlier stage of disease and outcome is improved in workers who are included in a health surveillance programme.
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This statement is in the "Health Surveillance"
section of evidence linked statements
Evidence
Tarlo SM, Liss GM, Yeung KS
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Changes in rates and severity of compensation claims for asthma due to diisocyanates: a possible effect of medical surveillance measures
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Occup Environ Med
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2002
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59
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58-62
Principal reccomendations
This statement supports the following principal reccomendations
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Employers and their health and safety personnel should provide regular health surveillance to workers where a risk of occupational asthma is identified. Surveillance should include a respiratory questionnaire enquiring about work-related upper and lower respiratory symptoms, with additional functional and immunological tests, where appropriate.
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