Departments used in job exposure matrix in relation to jobs/departments in employment records
| Departments used in job exposure matrix | Jobs/departments as recorded in employment records | No. of entries in work histories of 926 study subjects |
|---|---|---|
| Platemaking | Platemaking | 287 |
| Sintered platemaking | 48 | |
| Assembly | Assembly | 73 |
| Main assembly | 28 | |
| Min. cell assembly | 4 | |
| Cell repair | 29 | |
| Sintered assembly | 13 | |
| Negative active material | Negative active material | 72 |
| Iron masse | 12 | |
| Casting and recovery | Scrap recovery, cell recovery | 3 |
| Maintenance, inspection | Building maintenance, bricklayer | 18 |
| Electrician | 36 | |
| Engineering maintenance, maintenance | 76 | |
| Inspection | 11 | |
| Millwright | 11 | |
| Painter | 3 | |
| Pipefitting | 14 | |
| Quality control | 76 | |
| Shop sweeping, factory cleaning | 31 | |
| Other jobs/departments | Annealing | 8 |
| Boilerman | 8 | |
| Canteen | 1 | |
| Workshop, crate assembly | 57 | |
| Cell plating | 15 | |
| Charge shop | 29 | |
| Despatch | 3 | |
| Final assembly | 29 | |
| Forklift driver | 4 | |
| Formation | 40 | |
| Garage, van driver | 9 | |
| Gate duty, security | 4 | |
| Yard labourer | 5 | |
| Lamp shop | 2 | |
| Machine shop | 90 | |
| Mine lamp | 1 | |
| Nickel flake | 10 | |
| Component plating | 7 | |
| Offices | 2 | |
| Packing | 33 | |
| Perforating | 66 | |
| Plastic assembly | 38 | |
| Strip plating | 37 | |
| Positive active material | 45 | |
| Press shop | 56 | |
| Ribbon plating | 34 | |
| Groundsman | 2 | |
| Stores, warehouseman | 46 | |
| Test room | 24 | |
| Tool room | 42 | |
| Tube department | 26 | |
| Welding | 74 | |
| Works engineer, works study | 9 | |
| Total | 1701 |