Occupational dermatitis in construction and public workers
Frimat, P.
La Revue du Praticien 52(13): 1433-1438
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-2640 PMID: 12385153 Document Number: 545186
Construction workers perform a large variety of duties concerned with building, repairing, and wrecking buildings, bridges, dams, roads, railways and so on. The work may include mixing, pouring and spreading concrete, asphalt, gravel and other materials. Despite the increasing mechanization of construction and the more frequent use of precast concrete sections, contact with wet cement still occurs, particularly in small jobs. The work is hard physical labor, often under difficult conditions, including hot, cold, and wet weather. Occupational diseases of the skin in the construction have paralleled industrial development.