Skin Disease
Occupational skin diseases as a result of contact with irritants at work is an area which the industrial disease team at Bond Pearce have a great deal of experience of. The industrial injury lawyers experience and expertise includes acting for people from a wide range of jobs, industries and activities that could give rise to occupational contact dermatitis such as irritant contact dermatitis and allergic contact dermatitis. Also chronic skin disease, atopic dermatitis, neurodermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis and stasis dermatitis.
If you have have suffered a similar workplace accident contact one of our personal injury lawyers for specialist legal advice. You can either fill out our online enquiry form, request a call back or call us direct on 0800 915 4650
| Occupations | Substances |
|---|---|
| Artists | Turpentine, pigments, dyes, colophon, epoxy resin |
| Automobile and aircraft industry workers | Chromates, nickel, cobalt, rubber, epoxy and dimethacrylate resins |
| Bakers and confectioners | Flavours and spices, orange, lemon, essential oils, dyes, ammonium persulphate, benzoyl peroxide |
| Bartenders | Orange, lemon, lime flavours |
| Bookbinders | Glues, resins, leathers |
| Butchers | Nickel, sawdust |
| Carpenters | Stains, glues, woods, turpentine, varnishes, colophony |
| Cleaners | Rubber (latex) gloves |
| Construction workers | Chromates, cobalt, rubber and leather gloves, resins, woods |
| Cooks and caterers | Foods, onions, garlic, spices, flavour, rubber gloves, sodium metabisulphite, lauryl and octyl gallate, formaldehyde, latex |
| Dentists and dental technicians | Local anaesthetics, mercury, methacrylates, eugenol, disinfectants, rubber, dental impression material |
| Dry cleaners | Rubber gloves |
| Electricians | Fluxes, resins, rubber |
| Electroplaters | Nickel, chromium, cobalt |
| Embalmers | Formaldehyde |
| Farming | Rubber, oats, barley, animal feed, veterinary medications, cements, plants |
| Floor-layers | Cement, resins, wood varnish |
| Florists and gardeners | Plants, pesticides, rubber gloves |
| Hairdressers | Dyes, persulphates, nickel, perfumes, rubber (latex) gloves, formaldehyde, resorcinol, pyrogallol |
| Jewellers | Epoxy resin, metals, soldering fluxes |
| Mechanics | Rubber gloves, chromates, epoxy resin, antifreeze |
| Medical personnel | Rubber (latex) gloves, anaesthetics, antibiotics, antiseptics, phenolthiazines, formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde, liquid chloroxylenol, hand creams |
| Metal workers | Nickel, chromates, additives in some cutting oils |
| Office workers | Rubber, nickel, glue |
| Painters | Turpentine, thinners, cobalt, chromates, polyester resins, formaldehyde, epoxy resin, adhesives, paints |
| Photography industry workers | Rubber gloves, colour developers, para-amino phenol, hydroquinone, formaldehyde, sodium metabisulphite, chromates |
| Plastic workers | Hardeners |
| Printers | Solvents, talc, zinc stearate |
| Shoemakers | Solvents |
| Textile workers | Fibres, bleaching agents, solvents |
| Veterinarians | Disinfectants, wet work, animals |
