Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

They can cause a change in people’s airways, known as the “hypersensitive state”: A substance is considered to cause occupational asthma if, as a result of exposures in the workplace, it produces the biological change known as the hypersensitive state in the airways; and triggers a subsequent reaction in those airways.

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