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Sick building syndrome in public services of Eure-et-Loir's district, France

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In September 2010, a sick building syndrome occurred after the relocation of three public services of Eure-et-Loir's district, France, in a renovated building in which foul odours have been perceived. The establishment of a coordination unit allowed an interdisciplinary approach including clinical, epidemiological, psychosocial and environmental investigations. Concerning the epidemiological field, a transversal study has been realised by administrating a questionnaire to volunteered officers (n = 48 out of 54). The study period was from september 2010 to september 2011. Univariate and multivariate analysis allowed studying risk factors for symptoms apparition. During the study period, 84% of the officers reported symptoms. Those were mainly distributed into three types: irritatives (63%), general (51%) and ears nose and throat symptoms (27%). Multivariate analysis showed that: agents affected by irritative symptoms were originally in good health (OR = 20,32; [2.5-162.0]; the risk for all symptoms increased with the rise of the number of hours at work (OR = [1.1-1.4] and for workers in offices with old floor lining (OR = 22,0[1.8-265.5]. The building had an inappropriate ventilation system for a tertiary use and some pollution sources have been noticed during the environmental investigations, although no emanation at a toxic level was detected. The psychosocial investigations emphasised a real suffering of the agents and a communication problem towards the events. The results allowed us to make some recommendations which are currently being applied. Since the beginning of their application, no more complaints have been reported
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hal-00904450 , version 1 (14-11-2013)

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Mathieu Rivière, Joelle-Dorcas Laffitte, Jean-Claude Gayral, Franck Chaventré, Daniel Brachet, et al.. Sick building syndrome in public services of Eure-et-Loir's district, France. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2013, 70 (Supplement 1), pp.A9-A10. ⟨hal-00904450⟩

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