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Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 19/05/2020
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  PROBE (Hazardous chemical Products Register for Occupational use in Belgium)
Country
 

  • Belgium
Name
  Sara Pauwels
Institution
  KU Leuven
Email
  sara.pauwels@kuleuven.be
Name of committee
  SMEC
Participation in pooled analyses
 

  • The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses).
Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  To collect high-quality data on the exposure of Belgian employees to hazardous chemicals by using a sentinel surveillance system.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Prospective cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • General population: National
Year(s) of enrollment
 

From To
2018 2018

Enrollment
  Completed
Men at enrollment
  504
Women at enrollment
  162
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Active (contact with participants)
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)
Occupational history/time frame
  Current, at enrollment
Occupational coding performed
  Yes
Occupation (specify coding system used)
 

  • ISCO
Industry (specify coding system used)
 

  • NACE
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Other (specify)
Specify: Other
  questionnaire
Main categories
 

  • Dusts and fibres
  • Solvents
  • Metals and metal oxides
  • Other chemicals
Dusts and fibres | Fibres
 

  • Asbestos (any form of asbestos chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite, etc. or asbestos-containing material)
  • Ceramic fibres
Dusts and fibres | Inorganic dusts
 

  • Silicates
  • Other (specify)
Dusts and fibres | Inorganic dusts | Specify: Other
  powder coatings
Dusts and fibres | Organic dusts
 

  • Wood dust (not specified)
Solvents | Aromatic hydrocarbon solvents
 

  • Benzene
  • Toluene
Solvents | Chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents
 

  • Chloroform
  • Methylene chloride
  • Perchloroethylene
  • Trichloroethylene
  • Other (specify)
Solvents | Chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents | Specify: Other
  1,2 dichloroethane
Solvents | Organic solvents, other than aliphatic, aromatic and chlorinated
 

  • Formaldehyde
  • Ketones
Metals and metal oxides
 

  • Beryllium and all compounds
  • Cadmium and all compounds
  • Lead and all compounds
Other chemicals | Engine exhaust
 

  • Diesel engine exhaust
Other chemicals | Isocyanates
 

  • Isocyanates
Other chemicals | Welding fumes
 

  • Welding fumes, not specified
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)