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Test of significance showed that gender and age do not significantly affect the perception. However, factors like education, income level, locality, and location of the job significantly influenced the perception. Linear regression analysis showed that ambient air quality is a significant predictor of workplace air quality perception. The OR indicated strong dependence of workers\u2019 perception on the actual OEAP. Regarding the exposure associated with a profession, the perception of the practitioners of that profession and the public matched for those professions where the exposures were expected to be high but deviated significantly when the profession had relatively lower exposure to pollution.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The perception of risks compared to actual risks will serve as the foundation for developing awareness and sensitization programmes focused on occupational risk.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/10519815241305004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,11]],"date-time":"2025-02-11T06:51:46Z","timestamp":1739256706000},"page":"2230-2243","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Public perception on occupational exposure to air pollution in India"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"81","author":[{"given":"Abinaya","family":"Sekar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5327-2697","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"George","family":"Kuttiparichel Varghese","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ravi","family":"Varma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_2","article-title":"The impact of air pollution on deaths, disease burden, and life expectancy across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017","volume":"3","author":"Balakrishnan K","year":"2019","unstructured":"Balakrishnan K, Dey S, Gupta T, et al. 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