Directly standardised incidence rate ratios for males aged 65 years or under and incidence rate ratios for males aged over 65 years of reports made to The Health and Occupation Reporting Network (THOR) by clinical specialists to compare work-related ill health from 2002 to 2008 in the UK construction industry or construction trades with all other employment sectors combined
| Disease or condition | All sectors | Employed in construction industry* | Employed in construction trade† | ||||
| ‘Estimated reports’ | ‘Estimated reports’ | SRR, age ≤65‡ (95% CI) | RR, age >65§ (95% CI) | ‘Estimated reports’ | SRR, age ≤65‡ (95% CI) | RR, age >65§ (95% CI) | |
| All skin disease | 9636 | 1760 (18%) | 1.6 (1.4 to 1.8) | 1.5 (1.2 to 1.9) | 2212 (23%) | 2.2 (1.9 to 2.4) | 2.1 (1.7 to 2.5) |
| Contact dermatitis | 5563 | 960 (17%) | 1.4 (1.2 to 1.6) | 2.9 (1.5 to 5.6) | 1341 (24%) | 2.0 (1.8 to 2.3) | 5.2 (2.8 to 9.4) |
| Skin neoplasia | 3444 | 733 (21%) | 4.2 (3.3 to 5.3) | 1.4 (1.1 to 1.7) | 783 (23%) | 3.9 (3.1 to 4.9) | 1.9 (1.5 to 2.4) |
| Benign keratosis | 1033 | 260 (25%) | 4.8 (3.2 to 7.0) | 2.0 (1.4 to 2.8) | 287 (28%) | 4.7 (3.1 to 6.9) | 2.8 (2.0 to 3.9) |
| Basal cell carcinoma | 1262 | 267 (21%) | 3.7 (2.6 to 5.3) | 1.4 (0.9 to 2.0) | 289 (23%) | 3.6 (2.5 to 5.2) | 1.9 (1.3 to 2.7) |
| Squamous cell carcinoma | 469 | 96 (20%) | 5.0 (2.5 to 10.0) | 1.3 (0.6 to 2.4) | 96 (20%) | 4.8 (2.4 to 9.6) | 1.4 (0.7 to 2.6) |
| Melanoma | 85 | 10 (12%) | 6.6 (3.5 to 12.3) | 0.4 (0.2 to 0.9) | 11 (13%) | 6.5 (3.5 to 12.2) | 0.6 (0.2 to 1.3) |
| All respiratory illness | 17283 | 6215 (36%) | 3.8 (3.5 to 4.2) | 5.0 (4.6 to 5.4) | 8752 (51%) | 5.9 (5.5 to 6.4) | 11.4 (10.5 to 12.2) |
| Asthma | 1707 | 68 (4%) | 0.09 (0.06 to 0.11) | – | 190 (11%) | 0.8 (0.6 to 1.0) | 1.4 (0.4 to 4.2) |
| Non-malignant pleural disease | 7855 | 3452 (44%) | 7.1 (6.3 to 8.1) | 5.7 (5.1 to 6.3) | 4825 (61%) | 13.3 (11.8 to 15.0) | 12.8 (11.6 to 14.1) |
| Mesothelioma | 5091 | 2079 (41%) | 7.1 (6.0 to 8.3) | 5.0 (4.4 to 5.7) | 2800 (55%) | 9.0 (7.6 to 10.6) | 11.8 (10.4 to 13.3) |
| Lung cancer | 545 | 246 (45%) | 5.4 (3.2 to 8.9) | 7.4 (5.0 to 10.9) | 347 (64%) | 9.1 (5.7 to 14.5) | 37 (23 to 57) |
| Pneumoconiosis | 880 | 263 (30%) | 5.5 (3.7 to 8.0) | 3.1 (2.2 to 4.2) | 359 (41%) | 9.7 (6.8 to 13.9) | 9.6 (6.8 to 13.4) |
| Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) | 6707 | 1472 (22%) | 1.9 (1.6 to 2.2) | 0.8 (0.2 to 2.8) | 1969 (30%) | 2.8 (2.4 to 3.2) | 1.7 (0.6 to 4.7) |
| MSD, neck/upper body | 5444 | 1228 (23%) | 2.0 (1.6 to 2.4) | 1.3 (0.3 to 4.6) | 1715 (32%) | 3.0 (2.6 to 3.6) | 2.7 (0.9 to 8.0) |
| MSD back | 779 | 195 (25%) | 2.1 (1.4 to 3.3) | – | 238 (31%) | 2.8 (1.9 to 4.2) | – |
| Mental ill health | 8286 | 328 (4%) | 0.3 (0.1 to 0.4) | 2.2 (0.2 to 17.0) | 500 (6%) | 0.4 (0.3 to 0.6) | 2.4 (0.3 to 18.9) |
↵* Standard Industrial Classification (2007)=45.
↵† Standard Occupational Classification (2000)=5215–5216, 5223, 5241, 5311–5329, 8141–8149, 9121–9129.
↵‡ Directly standardised incidence rate ratios for males aged 65 years using Labour Force Survey data as the denominator and standard population.2
↵§ Incidence rate ratios for males aged over 65 years using Labour Force Survey data as the denominator.2