Society guideline links: Occupational health

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Occupational asthma" and "Society guideline links: Lead and other heavy metal poisoning".)

International

●Endocrine Society (ES) and International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN): Endocrine disrupting chemicals – Threats to human health: Pesticides, plastics, forever chemicals, and beyond (2024)

●Wilderness Medical Society (WMS): Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of heat illness, update (2024)

●ES: Position statement on endocrine-disrupting chemicals (2018)

●ES: Second scientific statement on endocrine-disrupting chemicals (2015)

●World Health Organization (WHO): Guidelines for indoor air quality – Selected pollutants (2010)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Occupational medicine – Six tests and treatments to question (2021)

United States

●National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM): Guidance on PFAS exposure, testing, and clinical follow-up (2022)

●American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM): Guidance statement on occupational noise-induced hearing loss (2018)

●ACOEM: Practice guidelines on work-related asthma (2015)

●American Thoracic Society (ATS): Official statement on work-exacerbated asthma (2011)

●National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): Approaches to safe nanotechnology – Managing the health and safety concerns associated with engineered nanomaterials (2009)

Europe

●European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI): Position paper on food processing and occupational respiratory allergy (2019)

●EAACI: Position paper on monitoring of occupational and environmental aeroallergens (2014)

●European Respiratory Society (ERS): Specific inhalation challenge in the diagnosis of occupational asthma – Consensus statement (2014)

●ERS: Guidelines for the management of work-related asthma (2012)

United Kingdom

●British Thoracic Society (BTS): Clinical statement on occupational asthma (2022)

Australia–New Zealand

●Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) and National Asthma Council Australia (NACA): A position paper on work-related asthma (2020)

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not repeat chest X-rays when screening asbestos-exposed workers unless clinically indicated (2017)

Japan

●Japan Society for Occupational Health (JSOH): Guidelines for personal exposure monitoring of chemicals – Part III (2018)

●JSOH: Guidelines for personal exposure monitoring of chemicals – Part IV (2018)

●JSOH: Guidelines for personal exposure monitoring of chemicals – Part V (2018)

●JSOH: Guidelines for personal exposure monitoring of chemicals – Part VI (2018)

●JSOH: Guidelines for personal exposure monitoring of chemicals – Part I (2017)

●JSOH: Guidelines for personal exposure monitoring of chemicals – Part II (2017)