Background

  • Preserving data
  • Digitization - easier to work with data
  • Liberating/mobilizing data
  • Standardization - easier to compare data from different sources
  • Quality assurance
  • Centralization - easier for stakeholders to access

  • Targeting high risk groups
  • Setting priorities for prevention-related activities
  • Monitoring trends in exposure over time
  • Assessing the impact of regulations
  • Determining what is reasonably achievable
  • Predicting future cases of disease
  • Educating the public and policy makers

  • Estimating the disease burden of occupational exposures
  • Identifying research priorities, knowledge gaps and future needs
  • Linking with tumour registry data
  • Improving exposure assessment for epidemiology
  • Improving risk assessment

  • Analyte name
  • Exposure concentration
  • Exposure units
  • Sampling method
  • Sample date
  • Industry
  • Firm name
  • Job title
  • Limit of detection
  • Sample duration
  • Area vs. Personal
  • Work area/task
  • Flow rate
  • Analysis method
  • Particle size fraction