Contents Preface vi Guest Editors vii Introduction ix List of abbreviations xii 1. The global perspective of occupational lung disease 1 Mohamed F. Jeebhay 2. Exposure assessment 19 Ioannis Basinas, Hakan Tinnerberg and Martie van Tongeren 3. Sensitiser-induced occupational asthma 34 Olivier Vandenplas and Catherine Lemière 4. Work-exacerbated asthma 52 Gareth I. Walters 5. Acute inhalation injury 70 Sherwood Burge 6. The impact on the aetiology of COPD, bronchitis and bronchiolitis 86 Vivi Schlünssen, Else Toft Würtz, Martin Rune Hassan Hansen, Martin Miller, Torben Sigsgaard and Øyvind Omland 7. Occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis 104 Christopher Michael Barber and Hayley Barnes 8. Asbestosis 125 Kirsten Bennett and Fraser J.H. Brims 9. Non-malignant pleural disease from asbestos and malignant 141 pleural mesothelioma Arthur William Musk and Jennie Hui 10. Silicosis and other silica-related lung disorders 150 Deborah Helwen Yates and Anthony Rutledge Johnson 11. Coal mine dust lung disease 176 Leonard H.T. Go and Robert A. Cohen ERS monograph Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease Number 89 November 2020