Asthma publications
- Bakers content
- Vehicle spray painters content
- Non-MVR sector content
- Solderers, e.g. in electronics content
- Woodworkers content
- Healthcare workers content
- Agriculture workers content
- Engineering workers content
- HSE general guidance content
- More guidance on asthma produced by HSE and other organisations content
Bakers
- Bakers - time to clear the air! flour dust can cause asthma. ISBN 9780717663583, HSE Books.
- A baker’s dozen Thirteen essentials for health and safety in bakeries, HSG233, ISBN 0 7176 2616 4, HSE Books.
- Guidance on dust control and health surveillance in bakeries, including interactive training package Breathe Easy (produced by trade associations, unions and HSE), Federation of Bakers
- COSHH Essentials for the flour milling and craft bakery sector - Available from the COSHH Essentials web site
- Priorities for health and safety in the flour and grain milling industries FIS13
Vehicle spray painters
- Safety in Motor Vehicle Repair: Working with 2-pack isocyanate paints - INDG388
- Motor vehicle repair: Good practice for SMART (small and medium-area repair technique) sprayers - WEB33
- Controlling isocyanate exposure in spray booths and spray rooms - WEB36
- Reducing ill health in the motor vehicle repair industry – developing issues - SIM 3/06/04
- MVR topic inspection pack – Isocyanate exposure Topic inspection packs describe and support the duties of HSE inspectors.
- COSHH Essentials - motor vehicle repair - Available from the COSHH Essentials web site
Non-MVR sector
- Organic isocyanates in air MDHS25/3 ISBN 0 7176 1668 1, HSE Books.
- A new practical guide to complying with COSHH in the rubber industry ISBN 0 7176 1372 0, HSE Books.
- Safe use of and storage of cellular plastics HSG92 ISBN 0 7176 1115 9, HSE Books.
- COSHH Essentials for Printers
Solderers, e.g. in electronics
- Solder fume and you, INDG248(rev)
- Controlling health risks from rosin (colophony) based solder fluxes INDG249
- Resin acids in rosin (colophony) solder flux fume MDHS83 ISBN 0 7176 1363 1, HSE Books.
Woodworkers
- COSHH Essentials - Available from the COSHH Essentials web site
- Wood dust WIS1REV1
- COSHH and the woodworking industries WIS6REV
- Selection of respiratory protective equipment suitable for use with wood dust WIS14
Healthcare workers
- Latex and you, INDG320
- HSE Latex website
- Glutaraldehyde in air MDHS93 ISBN 0 7176 1618 5, HSE Books.
Agriculture workers
- Grain dust EH66 ISBN 0 7176 1535 9, HSE Books.
- Grain dust in non-agricultural workplaces, INDG140
- Grain dust AIS3
- Farmer's lung AS5
- Health hazards from dusty cargoes during the loading and unloading of ships DIS2
Engineering workers
HSE general guidance
- Control of substances hazardous to health (Fifth edition) L5 The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (as amended). Approved code of practice and guidance, ISBN 0 7176 2981 3, HSE Books.
- Respiratory protective equipment HSG53 A practical guide for users, ISBN 0 7176 2904 X, HSE Books.
- COSHH Essentials - easy steps to control chemicals HSG193 ISBN 0 7176 2737 3, HSE Books.
- A step by step guide to COSHH assessment HSG97 ISBN 0 7176 2785 3, HSE Books.
- Health surveillance at work HSG61 ISBN 0 7176 1705 X, HSE Books.
- Asthmagen? Critical assessments of the evidence for agents implicated in occupational asthma. Also known as the 'Asthmagen Compendium'
- Respiratory sensitisers and COSHH - Breathe freely, INDG95
- Breathe freely, a worker's information card (INDG 172)
- COSHH a brief guide to the regulations INDG136(rev2)
- Health and Safety Statistics
- Health Survelliance for Occupational Asthma
More guidance on asthma produced by HSE and other organisations
- Occupational asthma - a guide for employers, workers and their representatives published by British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF) in partnership with HSE and the TUC
- Occupational asthma - A guide for general practitioners and practice nurses published by BOHRF
- Occupational asthma - A guide for occupational physicians and occupational health physicians published by BOHRF
- 'Exposure to inhalable dust, wheat flour and a-amylase allergens in industrial and traditional bakeries' published in the The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, vol 48, No 1 January 2004 (pages 57-63)
- Measurement of exposure to isocyanates published by British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF)

