ReviewAnnals of work exposures and health2022
Occupational Exposure Assessment Tools in Europe: A Comprehensive Inventory Overview.
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- Cohort Profile: The European Occupational Exposome Mega Cohort Consortium (OMega-X).International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- LIFETIME JEM-DERIVED OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE BURDEN AND ODDS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND PARKINSONISM IN A MATCHED CASE-CONTROL STUDY.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Exposure Registries as a Prevention Tool for Occupational Cancers: Establishing a New Hazardous Drug Registry for Oncology Personnel.American journal of industrial medicine · 2025Article
- Capturing occupational risk of airborne disease: An international job-exposure matrix based on five exposure factors.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- OPERAS decision support system versus manual job coding: a quantitative analysis on coding time and inter-coder reliability.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2025Article
- Development of a gender-specific European job exposure matrix (EuroJEM) for physical workload and its validation against musculoskeletal pain.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- Leveraging Administrative Health Databases to Address Health Challenges in Farming Populations: Scoping Review and Bibliometric Analysis (1975-2024).JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Investigating Parkinson's disease risk across farming activities using data mining and large-scale administrative health data.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2025Article
- The association between wet work and hand eczema in the Dutch general population: Application of a job exposure matrix to the lifelines cohort study.Contact dermatitis · 2025Article
- Supporting the working life exposome: Annotating occupational exposure for enhanced literature search.PloS one · 2024Article
- Artificial intelligence exceeds humans in epidemiological job coding.Communications medicine · 2023Article
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- What is next for occupational cancer epidemiology?Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2022Article
- Exposure modelling in Europe: how to pave the road for the future as part of the European Exposure Science Strategy 2020-2030.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2022Review
- Job-Exposure Matrix: A Useful Tool for Incorporating Workplace Exposure Data Into Population Health Research and Practice.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
objectivesThe Network on the Coordination and Harmonisation of European Occupational Cohorts (OMEGA-NET) was set up to enable optimization of the use of industrial and general population cohorts across Europe to advance aetiological research. High-quality harmonized exposure assessment is crucial to derive comparable results and to enable pooled analyses. To facilitate a harmonized research strategy, a concerted effort is needed to catalogue available occupational exposure information. We here aim to provide a first comprehensive overview of exposure assessment tools that could be used for occupational epidemiological studies.
methodsAn online inventory was set up to collect meta-data on exposure assessment tools. Occupational health researchers were invited via newsletters, editorials, and individual e-mails to provide details of job-exposure matrices (JEMs), exposure databases, and occupational coding systems and their associated crosswalks to translate codes between different systems, with a focus on Europe.
resultsMeta-data on 36 general population JEMs, 11 exposure databases, and 29 occupational coding systems from more than 10 countries have been collected up to August 2021. A wide variety of exposures were covered in the JEMs on which data were entered, with dusts and fibres (in 14 JEMs) being the most common types. Fewer JEMs covered organization of work (5) and biological factors (4). Dusts and fibres were also the most common exposures included in the databases (7 out of 11), followed by solvents and pesticides (both in 6 databases).
conclusionsThis inventory forms the basis for a searchable web-based database of meta-data on existing occupational exposure information, to support researchers in finding the available tools for assessing occupational exposures in their cohorts, and future efforts for harmonization of exposure assessment. This inventory remains open for further additions, to enlarge its coverage and include newly developed tools.
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