Abstract
Irritant and allergie cement eczema has been found to be one of the most serious occupational health problems in building trades and industries. This has been illustrated more recently by the high frequency of cement dermatitis in underground workers during construction of the English Channel tunnel between England and France )Irvine et al. 1994), among workers from the construction industry in Taiwan (Sun et al. 1995; Guo et al 1999), construction workers in Spain (Condé-Salazar et al. 1995), in Germany (Geier and Schnuch 1995) and in Singapore (Wong et al. 1998). In the United States, the Occupational Health Foundation has recently focused on the problem (Occupational Health Foundation 1996).
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Avnstorp, C. (2004). Cement. In: Kanerva, L., Elsner, P., Wahlberg, J.E., Maibach, H.I. (eds) Condensed Handbook of Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18556-4_31
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