Compounds and scenarios involved in the JEM
| Total | AP/APE* | APE | NPE | OP/NP† | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job titles | Per cent‡ | Percentage of all titles | Job titles | Per cent‡ | Job titles | Per cent‡ | Job titles | Per cent‡ | Job titles | Per cent‡ | |
| All ISCO-88 job titles | 390 | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Exposed to alkylphenolic compounds | 54 | 100 | 13.8 | 12 | 22.2 | 10 | 18.5 | 30 | 55.6 | 2 | 3.7 |
| By exposure scenario | |||||||||||
| Manufacture and use of plastic and rubber products | 6 | 11.1 | 1.5 | 4 | 7.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 3.7 |
| Use of industrial tensioactives | 10 | 18.5 | 2.6 | 1 | 1.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | 16.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Manufacture and use of paints and lubricants | 20 | 37.0 | 5.1 | 7 | 13.0 | 10 | 18.5 | 3 | 5.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Use of domestic tensioactives | 5 | 9.3 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 9.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Use of cosmetic and hair products, and personal hygiene products | 3 | 5.6 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 5.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Use of pesticides | 10 | 18.5 | 2.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 10 | 18.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
*This category includes those job titles involving a mixture of alkylphenols and alkylphenolic ethoxylates.
†One job title was coded as exposed to OP, and another as exposed to both OP and NP.
‡Percentage of exposed job titles.
AP, alkylphenols; APE, alkylphenolic ethoxylates; ISCO-88, International Standard Classification of Occupations-88; JEM, job-exposure matrix; NPE, nonylphenol ethoxylates; OP/NP, octylphenol/nonylphenol.