Medical aspects of occupational skin disease

Provides guidance to health professionals on the surveillance of those at risk from irritants, sensitisers and other non-infective skin damaging agents, excluding ionising and non-ionising radiation. Contents: Occupational dermatoses; Mechanisms of damage; Contact dermatitis; Irritants; Sensitisers; Other non-infective hazardous agents; Risk assessment and precautions in the workplace; Health surveillance; Clinical investigation and diagnosis; Management of individual cases. Also provides a list of some occupational contact irritants and sensitisers.