Percentage of jobs classified as exposed or with an expert re-evaluation
| Agents | Asthma-specific JEM | New OAsJEM | ||
| Exposed, % | Exposure level, %* | Expert re-evaluation, %* | ||
| Medium or high | High only | |||
| Animals | 2.2 | 3.4 | 1.2 | 4.2 |
| Fish/shellfish | 0.2 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 1.8 |
| Flour | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.8 |
| Foods | – | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.8 |
| Plants-related dusts | 0.8 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 4.9 |
| House dust mites | – † | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.2 |
| Storage mites | – † | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Plant mites | – † | 2.8 | 0.4 | 4.3 |
| Enzymes | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| Latex | 2.2 | 4.2 | 1.2 | 4.5 |
| Textile | 3.2 | 3.2 | 0.6 | 3.4 |
| Moulds | 1.2 | 6.3 | 0.6 | 3.0 |
| Endotoxin | – | 5.5 | 1.6 | 3.8 |
| Drugs | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 2.0 |
| High-level chemical disinfectants | 0.8 | 7.1 | 0.6 | 4.7 |
| Aliphatic amines | – | 2.0 | 0.6 | 3.6 |
| Isocyanates | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 2.2 |
| Acrylates | – | 2.0 | 0.0 | 3.2 |
| Epoxy resins | – | 1.8 | 0.8 | 1.8 |
| Persulfates/henna | – | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Wood | 0.0 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
| Metal | 5.5 | 9.3 | 1.4 | 8.1 |
| Metal working fluids | 0.8 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.6 |
| Herbicides | – | 3.2 | 1.4 | 2.0 |
| Insecticides | – | 4.2 | 1.8 | 2.4 |
| Fungicides | – | 4.0 | 1.8 | 1.0 |
| Indoor cleaning | – | 4.2 | 0.6 | 1.8 |
| Bleach | – | 2.2 | 0.4 | 1.6 |
| Organic solvents | – | 17.4 | 2.6 | 5.5 |
| Exhaust fumes | 4.0 | 11.9 | 2.6 | 7.1 |
In the second column, in italics: percentage of jobs classified exposed by the original asthma-specific JEM.19
*percentage of jobs classified exposed at high or medium level and at high level, respectively out of 506. For 14 agents, the percentages of jobs classified exposed were less than 3%.
†0.4 for mites and insect antigens in general according to the original asthma-specific JEM.19
JEM, job exposure matrix; OAsJEM, occupational asthma-specific JEM.