08.30 |
Registration |
09.00 |
Conference Opening Ms Patricia Mc Donnell OHSI Hon. President |
09.05 |
Annual Tom O' Connor Lecture "An EU perspective on OSH
issues and Emerging Risks" |
09.50 |
"Skin notation for chemicals", Dr. John Cherrie. |
10.35 |
Tea/Coffee Break |
11.00 |
"REACH and CLP Update", Louise Conway. |
11.45 |
"Legionella Risk Assessment and Control ", Bill Thomas. |
12.30 |
Business Networking Session |
12.45 |
Lunch |
13.45 |
OHSI AGM – all members welcome. |
14.05 |
"Exposure Assessment of Nanoparticles and Management in
Workplaces", Derk Brouwer. |
14.50 |
“Occupational Hygiene from a HSA standpoint” Darren Arkins, HSA. |
15.20 |
"REACH/CLP Programme", Louise Loughran. |
16.15 |
Conference Close Patricia McDonnell OHSI Hon. President |
Eusebio Rial González, PhD, is the Head of the Prevention and Research Unit at European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. He is currently a member of several advisory committees on European and international research projects e.g. International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) and a consultant for the Work, Stress, and Health conferences, American Psychological Association & NIOSH
John Cherrie PhD, BSc, FFOH, is Research Director at the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) and Honorary Reader at the University of Aberdeen. He is also a Past President of the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS).
Louise Conway is an inspector with the HSA and a human health toxicologist who works in the Chemicals Policy and Services Division. She has experience with classification and labelling and was also the Irish delegate at the European Technical Committee on New and Existing Substances meetings. She currently works in the REACH and CLP policy areas.
Bill Thomas, PhD, ISHEM, is a microbiologist with over 25 years practical experience in water quality and related public health matters. He is a recognised expert in Legionella control, risk assessment and water quality management. Bill is a member of the BSI committee responsible for producing the new BS8580 on risk assessment for Legionella control. He is also a member of the Irish Legionella Control Sub-Committee which prepared the Irish Guidance on Legionella Control.
Derk Brouwer is a senior scientist in exposure assessment with the Dutch Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO involved in various international projects on assessment of worker exposure to nanoparticles. He has over 30 years of professional experience in the field of occupational hygiene, exposure and risk assessment.
Louise Loughran is an Occupational Hygienist with Eli Lilly, for the past ten years, and previously with Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh. Louise is currently specialising in REACH and CLP compliance.
Justin Mason is Managing Director of SafeBridge Europe, Limited, part of SafeBridge Consultants, Inc. SafeBridge is the premier occupational health and safety resource for the biopharma industry. Justin has extensive experience in strategic potent pharmaceutical compound management and environmental control matters. He has previously held corporate EHS management, senior global consultancy and board-level director positions in life-science companies
Presentation materials and resources from the OHSI 2012 Conference are available to all attendees from the event's download area.
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