Estimated average annual incidence and rates/million* of selected diseases by occupation, 1992–2001
| Occupation | Asthma | Inhalation accidents | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chest physicians | Occupational physicians | Chest physicians | Occupational physicians | |||||
| n | Rate | n | Rate | n | Rate | n | Rate | |
| *No denominators available for “not known” category. | ||||||||
| 1. Managers & administrators | 17 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 1 | <0.5 | 1 | 2 |
| 2. Professional | 22 | 7 | 19 | 27 | <0.5 | <0.5 | 7 | 10 |
| 3. Associated professional & technical | 55 | 19 | 50 | 161 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 48 |
| 4. Clerical & secretarial | 15 | 4 | 10 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 5. Craft & related | 257 | 78 | 81 | 455 | 13 | 4 | 26 | 148 |
| 6. Personal & protective services | 22 | 7 | 17 | 67 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 45 |
| 7. Sales | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | <0.5 | <0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 8. Plant & machine operatives | 166 | 66 | 69 | 180 | 24 | 10 | 29 | 74 |
| 9. Other | 46 | 22 | 26 | 44 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 17 |
| 10. Not known | 12 | – | 2 | – | 30 | – | 14 | – |
| Total | 616 | 22 | 281 | 87 | 98 | 4 | 116 | 36 |