Presentation materials and resources from the recent OHSI 2017 Conference are available to all attendees from the event's download area.
08.30 |
Registration |
09.00 |
Conference Opening Dr Sharon McGuinness, Health & Safety Authority |
09.10 |
Annual Tom O' Connor Lecture: Testing compliance with exposure limits: the new revision of European Standard EN 689 |
09.50 |
Understanding how OELs, DNELs and Risk Assessments from Different Legislative Regimes on Chemicals Can Work Together |
10.35 |
Tea/Coffee Break |
11.00 |
Noise Induced Hearing Loss |
11.40 |
Tackling Health in Construction |
12.20 |
Exhibitor Presentations |
13.00 |
LUNCH & EXHIBITS |
14.15 |
OHSI AGM |
14.30 |
A Primer on Nanotechnology, Nanoparticles and their Measurement |
15.10 |
Legislative updates on REACH and CLP. |
15.50 |
Occupational exposures to plant protection products among amenity horticulturists |
16.10 |
Conference Close. |
Dr Trevor Ogden worked for the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh, and then for 19 years for the British Health and Safety Executive, mainly on dust problems. He chaired the British WATCH committee, on exposure limits and other controls, for three years, and was Chief Editor of Annals of Occupational Hygiene from 1997 to 2012. He is British representative (nominated by BOHS) on the European Standards (CEN) working group revising EN 689, which he is speaking about at this conference.
Bridget Ginnity is a chemist and occupational hygienist and has worked in ECHA, in private consultancy and in multinational corporations. In ECHA, Bridget was responsible for supporting downstream users under REACH and for aspects relating to chemical safety assessments and exposure scenarios. As owner/director of ANV Technology, she provided occupational hygiene consultancy for over 15 years, specialising in chemicals and noise. She is a chartered member of BOHS and holds degrees in chemistry and in manufacturing engineering and postgraduate diplomas in occupational hygiene and in acoustics.
Peter Wilson is Technical Director at INVC. An engineering background plus 30 years of experience have given Peter a very pragmatic approach to noise and vibration. Both he and the INVC have acquired a considerable reputation for developing innovative assessment and noise and vibration control techniques across a wide range of applications and industries. He developed the IOSH competency training courses in both noise and vibration and is in demand as a highly entertaining (and sometimes controversial) speaker on these traditionally dry and technical subjects.
Darren Arkins is a senior inspector with the Health and Safety Authority since 2008, and is a council member of OHSI. Darren heads up the Occupational Hygiene Unit (OHU) in the Chemical Business Services Division of the Authority. The Unit has responsibility for enforcement and administration of legislation in relation to asbestos, chemical agents, carcinogens and biological agents, including REACH and CLP.
Dr Steve Hankin is Director of Analytical Division and the SAFENANO unit at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh, UK. He is a Chartered Chemist with BSc and PhD degrees in Chemistry and postgraduate diplomas in Medical Toxicology and Epidemiology. After research posts in Ottawa and Glasgow, he led activities concerning surveillance, control and response to hazardous materials exposures at Health Protection Scotland before moving to the IOM in 2007, where he leads a team of scientists providing research and consultancy services in chemical, mineralogical and particle analysis, exposure measurement, toxicology and risk assessment.
Alison Connolly obtained her BSc in Health and Safety Systems from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2014. Alison is currently completing her PhD research project on 'Occupational exposures to plant protection products among amenity horticulturists' in the School of Physics, NUI Galway.
Caroline Walsh joined the HSA in 2001. She works in the Chemicals and Prevention Division where she manages the HSA's Chemicals Helpdesk and represents Ireland at the ECHA HelpNet Steering group for CLP. She leads on CLP policy and is currently working on the next legislative update to CLP, the review of the ECHA labelling and packaging guidance, CLP FAQs. For 2017 she will be involved in the ECHA train the trainers for the classification of mixtures. She provides technical support to her compliance Colleagues, Government Departments and Agencies involved in the REACH and CLP processes at home and abroad .
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