| Table 1: Construction Jobs and Associated Job Tasks |
| Job Title |
Ask About |
Job Tasks for this Job |
| insulator |
a, b, c, 3 |
1, 2, 27, 28 |
| roofer |
|
1, 2, 5, 88 |
| brick, block & stone mason |
a, b, c |
1, 2, 29, 31, 58, 62 |
| concrete or terrazzo worker |
a, b, c, d |
29, 58, 31 |
| carpenter |
a, b, c, d |
1, 2, 27, 28, 39, 41, 44, 45, 50, 51, 63 |
| construction, industrial or maintenance
painter |
a, b, c, 63 |
15, 41, 44, 45, 60, 62, 88 |
| electrician/repairer of transformers,
electrical, or electronic equipment |
a, b, c, 3, 6, 10, 28 |
1, 7, 8, 78 |
| plumber, pipe fitter, or steamfitter |
a, b, c, e, 6 |
1, 2, 3, 5,7, 8, 88 |
| sheet metal worker |
a, b, c |
1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 104 |
| welder, cutter, or burner |
a, b, c, e, 6, 8, 10, 62, 63 |
1, 2, 3, 7 |
| heating & air conditioning installer |
a |
1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 10 |
| dry wall taper, plasterer |
|
105 |
The middle column lists questions to ask the worker while
taking the occupational history.
a.Ventilation adequate--work indoors or in confined spaces?
b. If work in buildings, old or new? Or if in shipyard, repairing
old or building new ships?
c. If work in production area, what product made and what other
workers doing?
d. Exposed to chemicals in pipes?
e. Paint?
Table 2: Construction Job Tasks and
Associated Chemical Exposures |
| Job Task Name |
Potential Chemical Exposure |
| 1. remove insulation |
asbestos, fiberglass, mineral wool |
| 2. install insulation |
asbestos, fiberglass, mineral wool (no
asbestos after 1975) |
| 3. weld, braze or flame cut (includes thermal
degradation of coatings and pigments) |
CO; NO2, phosgene; fluorides,
inorganic; lead; cadmium; manganese; chromium, iron oxide; zinc chloride fume; nickel;
molybdenum; copper; aluminum; vanadium; titanium oxide; tungsten; barium, soluble;
antimony; butyraldehyde; acrolein; phthalic anhydride; methyl methacrylate; welder fumes |
| 5. apply asphalt to cables, pipes or roofs |
asphalt |
| 6. machine metal |
oil mist (mineral); chromium, nickel, cobalt,
formaldehyde, nitrosamines |
| 7. degrease metal |
methylene chloride, 1,1,1-trichloroethane,
TCE, Perc. & CFCs |
| 8. solder |
lead, rosin, tin, silver |
| 10. repair air conditioning or refrigeration |
CFCs |
| 15. paint (2-part epoxy or urethane) |
epichlorohydrin, diisocyanates &
trimellitic anhydride, lead, cadmium, chromium |
| 27. work with glue solvents |
xylene, toluene, n-hexane, methylal, mek,
benzene, cyclohexane, TCE, perc, 2-nitropropane, DMF, naphtha |
| 28. work with adhesives |
methyl-2-cyanoacrylate, methyl methacrylate,
ethyl acrylate, epichlorohydrin, TDI, tricresyl phosphate, formaldehyde |
| 29. mix & lay cement or concrete |
Portland cement |
| 31. clean masonry |
HCl |
| 39. machine or sand wood |
wood dust, formaldehyde |
| 41. use paint or varnish remover |
Methylene Chloride, Cyclohexanethiol,
Dimethylformamide, Isopropyl ether, 1,2,3-Trichloropropane, Isoamyl alcohol, Toluene,
sec-Butyl alcohol, 2-Ethoxyethanol; 2-Ethoxyethyl acetate, Methyl acetate, Mesityl oxide,
Isobutyl alcohol, Ethylene dichloride, Cyclohexanone, Propylene dichloride, Potassium
hydroxide |
| 44. paint & varnish (oil-based) |
acetone, methylene chloride, Stoddard solvent,
VM & P, turpentine, xylene, toluene, lead, cadmium, chromium |
| 45. spray paint (water-based) |
ammonia, formaldehyde, dipropylene glycol
methyl ether, 2-butoxyethanol, Stoddard solvent |
| 50. apply wood preservatives |
pentachlorophenol, creosote, arsenic, copper |
| 51. work with preservative-treated wood |
pentachlorophenol, creosote, arsenic, copper |
| 58. grind or cut tiles, stones, bricks or
terrazo |
silica, asbestos |
| 60. spray paint (metallic pigments) |
chromium, nickel, lead, cadmium, cobalt,
titanium |
| 62. sandblast |
silica, nickel, cadmium, chromium, lead,
beryllium |
| 63. surface preparation of metal alloy |
lead, cadmium, chromium, beryllium, nickel,
zinc |
| 78. remove or replace fluid in transformers |
PCBs |
| 88. use solvents for equipment clean up |
gasoline, MEK, turpentine, Stoddard, VM &
P, methylene chloride, tetrachloroethylene, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, CFCs, toluene, xylene |
| 104. forge metal |
CO, oil mist (mineral), PAHs |
| 105. mixing, spraying, or sanding drywall
compound, fireproofing plaster or accoustical cement (during new construction before 1975) |
asbestos |
Thanks to Trish Stewart at the National Cancer Institute
for her assistance with these two tables. This preliminary work was used to
build the first version of hazardous job tasks for construction workers. To
see the current list of construction jobs and associated job tasks, see this
page on the NLM website: Haz-Map
Construction Jobs.
Stewart WF, Stewart PA. Occupational Case-Control
Studies: I. Collecting Information on Work Histories and Work-Related Exposures. Am J
Ind Med. 1994;26:297-312.
Stewart PA, Stewart WF, Heineman EF, Dosemeci M, Linet M,
Inskip PD. A Novel Approach to Data Collection in a Case-Control Study of Cancer and
Occupational Exposures. Int J Epidemiol. 1996;25:744-752.
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