Airborne Infectious Agents

The general airborne infectious agents JEM aimed to assess the risk of being infected by infectious agents through airborne or droplet transmission in an occupational setting, that might lead to a respiratory disease.

The general airborne infectious agents JEM aimed to assess the risk of being infected by infectious agents through airborne or droplet transmission in an occupational setting, that might lead to a respiratory disease. The established Covid-19-JEM formed the basis for the development of the general airborne infectious agents JEM [1]. Based on the Covid-19-JEM, an expert assessment, the JEM on solar UVR exposure with information on hours working inside and national data on hours per week on site from a representative Dutch survey, the general airborne infectious agents JEM was constructed. The airborne infectious agents JEM contains five factors: hours per week on site, hours working inside, number of contacts, nature of contacts, and in close physical contact to others. Per occupation within the International Standard Classification of Occupations system 2008 (ISCO-08), a risk score ranging from 1 (low risk) to 3 (high risk) was provided for all five factors separately. The manuscript of the development of the general airborne infectious agents JEM is currently under review. [2] The general airborne infectious agents Jem will be made public upon publication of the paper and will be free for use by other researchers. To use the JEM for publication, for questions about the JEM and possible collaboration, please contact Karen Oude Hengel.

Contact persons

Karen Oude Hengel

Senior Researcher, TNO

Publications

Exposure to a SARS-CoV-2 infection at work: development of an international job exposure matrix (COVID-19-JEM).
Oude Hengel KM, Burdorf A, Pronk A, Schlünssen V, Stokholm ZA, Kolstad HA, van Veldhoven K, Basinas I, van Tongeren M, Peters S
Scand J Work Environ Health 2022 Jan;48(1):61-70

Development of an international job exposure matrix for exposure to airborne infectious agents at the workplace. 
Oude Hengel KM, Peters S, Stokholm ZA, Burdorf A, Pronk A, Kolstad HA, van Tongeren M, Basinas I, Schlünssen V. Submitted in January 2025.

Kevin Skogh
20-02-2025