| Example occupations | Examples of irritants | Examples of sensitisers |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural workers | Artificial fertilisers; cleaning products; diesel; disinfectants; dust including soil and food products; gasoline; oils; pesticides; plants; solvents; wet-work. | Animal feeds; barley; cement; fungicides; germicidal products; oats; plants; pesticides; veterinary medications; wood dust; preservatives; wool. |
| Bakers | Acids; detergents; wet-work. | Ammonium persulphate; benzoyl peroxide; dyes; essential oils; enzymes; flavours; flour; some fruits. |
| Bartenders | Detergents; disinfectants; scale- removers; wet-work. | Formaldehyde; some fruits. |
| Beauticians (Nails) | Dusts; acetone; disinfectants. | Ethylmethacrylate; methylmethacrylate. |
| Butchers and abattoir workers | Acids and alkalis; detergents; waste products; wet-work. | Animal proteins; formaldehyde; latex rubber protein; nickel; sawdust. |
| Cabinet makers and carpenters | Detergents; glues; solvents; thinners; wood dust; wood preservatives. | Colophony; dyes; fungicides; glues; turpentine; varnishes; wood dust. |
| Carpet layers | Adhesives; dusts. | Adhesives; mites; fungus; animal waste. |
| Cleaners | Detergents; other cleaning products; solvents; wet-work. | Formaldehyde; germicidal agents. |
| Construction workers | Cement; dusts; solvents; sand; wet-work; building materials. | Cement; chromium; chromium compounds, cobalt; epoxy resins; nickel; resins; thiuram in gloves, wood dust. |
| Cooks and caterers | Acids and alkalis; bleaching agents; detergents; vegetable juices; wet-work. | Flavours (some types); formaldehyde; garlic; sodium metabisulphite; spices (some). |
| Dentists and dental technicians | Detergents; wet-work. | Dental impression material; disinfectants; eugenol; local anaesthetics (some); mercury; methacrylates; latex rubber free protein. |
| Doctors, nurses and others | Disinfectants; detergents; wet-work. | Latex gloves; Some anaesthetics, antibiotics and antiseptics; phenothiazines; formaldehyde; glutaraldehyde; liquid chloroxylenol. |
| Electricians | Fibre glass; soldering fluxes. | Epoxy resins; rubber; isocyanates; soldering fluxes; dusts. |
| Floor-layers | Solvents. | Cement; epoxy resins; house mites; wood; wood dust. |
| Florists and gardeners | Compost; fertilisers; pesticides; wet-work; soil; preservatives. | Plants; pesticides; insecticides. |
| Foundry workers | Dust; sand. | Chromium; cobalt; nickel; phenol/urea-formaldehyde resins. |
| Hairdressers | Bleaching agents; dyes; permanent wave solutions; shampoos; wet-work. | Dyes; nickel; persulphates; perfumes; latex rubber protein; amine based chemicals, including parphenylene diamine (ppd). |
| Hospital and care home workers | Detergents; disinfectants; wet-work. | Latex rubber protein; medicines. |
| Metal workers | Cutting oils /fluids; solvents; metal shavings/dusts. | Additives/preservatives in cutting fluids; chromium; nickel. |
| Mechanics | Cleaners; diesel; gasoline; greases; oils; solvents. | Chromium; epoxy resin; nickel. |
| Motor vehicle repairers | Aggressive hand cleaning products; fuels; oils; paints; solvents. | Chromium; cobalt; epoxy resins; nickel. |
| Painters | Aggressive hand cleaners; solvents; thinners; wallpaper adhesives including antibacterial/mould agents. | Turpentine; thinners; chromium; formaldehyde; epoxy products; polyester resins. |
| Photographic industry workers | Solvents; wet-work. | Chromium; colour developers; para-aminophenol; formaldehyde; hydroquinone; sodium metabisulphite. |
| Printers | Solvents. | Colophony; formaldehyde; metals in resins/inks; resins and hardeners; turpentine. |
| Rubber products workers | Solvents; talc; uncured rubber; zinc stearate. | Colophony; dyes; rubber conditioning chemicals; different amines and epoxy resins. |
| Veterinarians | Disinfectants; wet-work. | Some anaesthetics, antibiotics and antiseptics; chloroxylenol; formaldehyde; glutaraldehyde; latex rubber protein; phenothiazines. |