Care-home workers’ exposure to SHS: a short summary of findings
- 1Scottish Centre for Indoor Air, School of Medicine, University of Aberdeen, UK
- 2Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK
- 3NHS Health Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
- 4Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research & Policy (SCPHRP), MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK
- 5Institute of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Correspondence to Sean Semple, Scottish Centre for Indoor Air, Liberty Safe Work Centre, Foresterhill Road, Aberdeen AB25 2ZP, UK; sean.semple{at}abdn.ac.uk
- Accepted 16 January 2009
Smoke-free legislation introduced in 2006 and 2007 across the UK has dramatically reduced the number of workers exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke (SHS). Data collected by our group have shown reductions in airborne respiratory particulate exposure of 86% among bar workers in Scotland.1 However, there are some exceptions to the smoke-free legislation including care-home settings where residents are allowed to smoke in specially designated smoking rooms. There are concerns that people employed in care-homes are being exposed to high levels of SHS. We report here the results from a small study of workers in eight randomly selected care-homes in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire in Scotland.
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