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Received: 1 July 2018

Accepted: 30 November 2018

First Online: 12 December 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The participants declared informed written consent concerning their participation in this observational study. They were informed about the voluntariness of the participation and the possibility to withdraw their consent at any time without any personal disadvantages. The study and the consent procedure were approved by the Ethics committee of the University of Osnabrück (Az.: 4/71043.5–1).

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: The authors declare that all authors who are employed at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Dermatological Prevention and Rehabilitation (iDerm) (AW, AHa, AHü, GG, SMJ, KN, MR), at the German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the woodworking and metalworking industries, district administration in Dortmund (Berufsgenossenschaft Holz und Metall/BGHM, Bezirksverwaltung Dortmund) (AG) and at the Department of Dermatology, Klinikum Dortmund gGmbH (SW, DN), are immediately involved in outpatient and/or inpatient prevention programs of work-related skin diseases. One of these outpatient prevention programs is the one presented in this paper.

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