This document summarises what is currently known about the nature and scale of occupational skin disease amongst hairdressers and barbers and gives a brief overview of the characteristics of the industry; it reviews the available evidence for the causes of skin disase in this occupational sector; and finally, lays out some of the interventions that have been tried for this sector in two other E...

An impressive downward trend in cases of occupational skin diseases in hairdressers has occurred in Northern Bavaria over the past decade. This seems to reflect improvements in working conditions due to new legislation and intensified preventive measures rather than a change in the natural history of occupational skin disease. Because of the size of the region studied and the sampling scheme, t...

INTRODUCTION Paraphenylenediamine (PPD) is widely used in hair dyes and cosmetic skin application. PPD intoxication following oral ingestion could be an important cause of ARF in Sudan, Morocco and the Indian Subcontinent. Repeated and prolonged exposure to PPD may also be associated with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). METHODS This is a cross-sectional study that covered six conveniently-chose...

BACKGROUND Reported rises in the prevalence of hypospadias and other abnormalities of the male reproductive system may be a result of exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals. AIMS To analyse the relation between risk of hypospadias and maternal occupation, particularly with regard to exposure to potential endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). METHODS Data (1980-96) from the National Con...

In recent years occupational skin and respiratory diseases have been more and more frequently diagnosed in small production and service enterprises. The awareness of occupational exposure and its possible health effects among their workers and employers is not sufficient. Beauty salons, in addition to hairdressers and beauticians, frequently employ manicurists and pedicurists. The workers often...

Hairdressing is one of the most developing branch of the service industry in Poland. Providing representatives of this occupational group with preventive health care services it should be remembered that they are at risk of skin and respiratory diseases, which occur due to a quite frequent exposure to harmful agents in the work environment of hairdressers and hairdressing apprentices. Interesti...