Asthma at work

摘要

OCCUPATIONAL FACTORS account for up to 15 percent of asthma cases in working-age adults. While health and safety professionals play a major role in preventing cases of the potentially disabling occupational asthma, what can they do 40 help asthma sufferers whose condition is unrelated to their employment stay safe and healthy at work? Asthma is a chronic condition that affects the small airways. These become sensitive, swollen and sometimes filled with sticky secretions, making it hard to breath. As well as this, people with asthma can have acute symptoms that develop very rapidly - so-called asthma attacks.