Specific groups of workers are at greater risk of exposure to dangerous substances at work in the woodworking and furniture enterprises. According to some recent studies, these are the newly appointed workers, young workers, migrant workers and workers with certain medical problems, etc. How to properly and thoroughly identify these groups?
This is not going to be a complete answer to your question but you may want to look at the (U.S.) National Library of Medicine's Haz-Map resource I have provided the web link to its home page. One of the job tasks in Haz-Map is woodworking (please see web link). Also, one of the industries in Haz-Map is Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing (please see web link).
https://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/
https://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/job-tasks-category?level=1&job_task_category_name=Woodworking
https://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/category-details?id=2034&table=tblindustries
A quick evaluation system is the Chemical Risk Assessment Model called "MoVaRisCh", which has been approved by the technical groups of the Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Lombardy regions.
It is an algorithm that takes into account the evaluation of the parameters of the intrinsic hazard to the health of a chemical agent, its chemical-physical properties, the quantities in use, the type of use, the type of control, the time exposure.
It is a mode of analysis that through a simple computer path allows the assessment of the chemical risk to the health of workers and makes it possible to classify every worker exposed to hazardous chemical agents at risk irrelevant for health or not irrelevant for the health.
You can download the method from the ASL site of Modena
http://www.ausl.mo.it/dsp/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/1783
Unfortunately I did not find a translated version in English
The workers can be screened for various substances that you do suspect they are exposed to and are resulting in harm to their health status.
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