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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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Healthcare workers

• Latex and you, INDG320
• HSE Latex website
• Glutaraldehyde in air MDHS93 ISBN 0 7176 1618 5, HSE Books.

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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

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Engineering workers

• Working safely with metalworking fluids: A guide for employees

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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

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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)

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