Airborne infectious agents JEM

Airborne infectious agents JEM

The general airborne infectious agents JEM aimes 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. This 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 a risk score ranging from 1 (low risk) to 3 (high risk) was provided for all five factors separately. This JEM is part of the EuroJEM framework.

https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.3998

https://www.we-expose.eu/eurojem https://ki.se/en/imm/eurojem/airborne-infectious-agents

TNO

Aarhus University

eurojem@ki.se

After application for EuroJEM

2025

Oude Hengel KM, Burdorf A, Pronk A, Schlünssen V, Stokholm ZA, Kolstad HA, van Veldhoven K, Basinas I, van Tongeren M, Peters S. Exposure to a SARS-CoV-2 infection at work: development of an international job exposure matrix (COVID-19-JEM). Scand. J. Work Environ. Health 2022; 48 (1): 61-70. Oude Hengel KM, Peters S, Stokholm ZA, Burdorf A, Pronk A, Kolstad HA, van Tongeren M, Basinas I, Schlünssen V. Development of an international job exposure matrix for exposure to airborne infectious agents at the workplace. Submitted in January 2025.

Developed as part of the Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research (EPHOR). Grant Agreement No. 874703.

The manuscript of the development of the general airborne infectious agents JEM is currently under review (Oude Hengel et al., submitted). The general airborne infectious agents JEM will be made public upon publication of the paper.