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Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 03/09/2021
1. JOB-EXPOSURE MATRICES
JEM name
  INTEROCC Chemical-JEM
Institute
  University of Manchester
Country
  United Kingdom
Contact person
  Martie van Tongeren
Email
  martie.j.van-tongeren@manchester.ac.uk
References (citation)
 

  • Martie van Tongeren, Laurel Kincl, Lesley Richardson, Geza Benke, Jordi Figuerola, Timo Kauppinen, Ramzan Lakhani, Jérôme Lavoué, Dave McLean, Nils Plato, Elisabeth Cardis, FOR THE INTEROCC STUDY GROUP, Assessing Occupational Exposure to Chemicals in an International Epidemiological Study of Brain Tumours, The Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Volume 57, Issue 5, June 2013, Pages 610–626, https://doi.org/10.1093/annhyg/mes100
References (weblinks)
 

  • https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/57/5/610/212661
Attachments
 

Year JEM was developed
  2013
Agents
 

  • Dusts and Fibres
  • Solvents
  • Metals and Metal Oxides
  • Other Chemicals
Fibres
 

  • Asbestos (any form of asbestos chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite, etc. or asbestos-containing material)
Inorganic dusts
 

  • Quartz (quartz or crystalline silica containing dusts)
Organic dusts
 

  • Animal dust (from living animals or hairs of animals, e.g. raw wool, furs of minks, etc.)
  • Wood dust (not specified)
Aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbon solvents
 

  • Gasoline
Aromatic hydrocarbon solvents
 

  • Benzene
  • Toluene
Chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents
 

  • Methylene chloride
  • Perchloroethylene
  • Trichloroethanes
  • Trichloroethylene
Choose Metals and Metals Oxides
 

  • Cadmium and all compounds
  • Chromium (metallic chromium, Cr(iii), Cr(vi) and all compounds)
  • Iron (metallic iron and all compounds)
  • Lead and all compounds
  • Nickel and all compounds
Engine exhaust
 

  • Diesel engine exhaust
  • Gasoline engine exhaust
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
 

  • Benzo(a)pyrene
  • Bitumen fumes
Sulphur compounds, volatile
 

  • Sulphur dioxide and sulphur trioxide
Welding fumes
 

  • Welding fumes, not specified
Occupation Axis
  Yes
Coding system
 

  • ISCO 1968
  • ISCO 1988
Coding system (Number of digits used)
  5
Industry Axis
  No
Intensity
  Yes
Intensity categories/units
 

  • Quantitative (specify unit)
Specify: Quantitative (specify unit)
  Various
Probability
  Yes
Duration
  No
Peaks
  No
Data source(s)
 

  • Expert assessment
  • Other
Data source(s) | Other
 

  • Based on Finjem
Studies to which the JEM has been applied: Texts
 

  • Lacourt, A., Cardis, E., Pintos, J. et al. INTEROCC case–control study: lack of association between glioma tumors and occupational exposure to selected combustion products, dusts and other chemical agents. BMC Public Health 13, 340 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-340
  • Benke, G., Turner, M., Fleming, S. et al. Occupational solvent exposure and risk of glioma in the INTEROCC study. Br J Cancer 117, 1246–1254 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2017.285
  • Turner MC, Benke G, Bowman JD, et alInteractions between occupational exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields and chemicals for brain tumour risk in the INTEROCC studyOccupational and Environmental Medicine 2017;74:802-809
  • McLean D, Fleming S, Turner MC, et alOccupational solvent exposure and risk of meningioma: results from the INTEROCC multicentre case–control studyOccupational and Environmental Medicine 2014;71:253-258.
  • Parent, M., Turner, M.C., Lavoué, J. et al. Lifetime occupational exposure to metals and welding fumes, and risk of glioma: a 7-country population-based case–control study. Environ Health 16, 90 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0300-y
Studies to which the JEM has been applied: Links
 

  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-2458-13-340
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/bjc2017285
  • https://oem.bmj.com/content/74/11/802.abstract
  • https://oem.bmj.com/content/71/4/253.short
  • https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-017-0300-y
Relation with other JEMs
  INTEROCC JEM is based on FINJEM
Availability
 

  • Upon request