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Hi From what I understand you'd have to look at: - general air quality and humidity as already said - ventilation needs and maintainance etc - soiling on the linens causing irritation (e.g. skin particles etc becoming air borne with movement of linens; the type will depend on the industry being laundered) - detergents etc Carr On 21 July 2013 15:50, Thelma Jameson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Has anyone heard of runny and itchy nose in Laundry sorter? > > We have 8/10 workers in laundry complaining of runny and itchy nose. An > assessment was done and it was found that their was poor ventilation in the > department as their is limited route for cotton fibres to exit the > building. During summer they can open a large door to allow ventilation but > come winter month they have to shut that door as it will be too cold to > work. > > I have looked for any evidence in this topic but the closest i got was > cotton harvester /workers that may experience respiratory symptoms. It > appears that the worker i am concerned with only sort and distrIbute clean > linen to wards and departments and their is not sufficient exposure to > cotton. > > We have written to management to advice adequate ventilatory n the > department by installing a mechanism that will waft out fine fibres' to > consider PPE to cover nose, hair and overalls, warm clothing during winter > and recommend the workers to attend for spiro. Is their anything else we > should be doing? > Regards > Thelma > > ******************************** Please remove this footer before > replying. > > OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html > > CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH > ******************************** Please remove this footer before replying. OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH