Abstract
Occupational exposure can be represented either by the occupation (job title) or the industry a person is working in.
Several international and even more national classification systems for both occupation and industry exist.
As global classification of occupations, the “International Standard Classification of Occupations” (ISCO, presently ISCO-08) of the International Labor Organization is available.
The “International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities” (ISIC), presently in its 4th revision, issued by the United Nations Statistics Division, is used to document industrial sectors.
Depending on the circumstances, classification of occupation rather than industry may be preferable, or vice versa, or possibly use of both classification dimensions.
Regarding all general classifications, medical use for representing relevant (skin) exposure has not been a major objective. Hence, additional categories may need to be added, while some original categories can be used on an aggregated level.
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Uter, W. (2012). Classification of Occupations. In: Rustemeyer, T., Elsner, P., John, SM., Maibach, H.I. (eds) Kanerva's Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02035-3_7
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