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Pneumoconiosis
Domain: Health and safety at work => Diseases/accidents
Grammatical category
Noun
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Uncountable
Definition
The term pneumoconiosis refers to a group of fibrotic lung diseases (including asbestosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis and silicosis) caused by the inhalation and retention in the lungs of dusts containing irritant mineral or metallic particles.
Definition source
Jones 2003 adapted from HSE website: http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causdis/coal.htm.
European legislation
Directive 89/391/EEC; Rec. 2003/670/EC, 90/326/EEC
British legislation
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
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