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Programme

Global Occupational and Environmental Cancer Prevention Conference:
form research to policy to action

Friday 25 April 2008	Morning Session	Chair:  Andrew Watterson
                                                                           
                                        University of Stirling
	 
  

The Problem	Occupational and Environmental Cancers
	 

08.15hrs	Registration and Coffee

09.00hrs	Welcome and Introduction 

9.10hrs	Occupational and Environmental Cancer.  A global view of the 
statistics

	Dr Dick Clapp, School of Public Health, Boston University, USA

9.35hrs	Estimating Occupational and Environmental Cancer Burdens in 
Australia
	Dr Lin Fritschi, University of Western Australia
	Dr Tim Driscoll, University of Sydney, Australia

 

Solutions 1	Global and General
	 

9.55hrs	Occupational Cancer Prevention and the WHO:  the WHO Global Plan 
of Action on Workers Health
	Dr Kim, WHO Europe Office

10.15rs	Cancer Exposure Databases
	Dr Timo Kauppinen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

10.35hrs	A UK Perspective on Occupational Cancer.  What’s gone 
wrong, why and how we can improve prevention?
	Professor Rory O’Neil, Hazards/OEHRG University of Stirling

10.50hrs	10 minutes for questions

11.00hrs	Break with Refreshments

11.30hrs	The European Agency for Health and Safety at Work 
Perspective on Occupational Cancer.
	Dr Takala, (Speaker TBC) European Agency for Safety and Health at 
Work, Bilbao, Spain

11.50hrs	The Precautionary Principle on Environmental Cancer 
Prevention:  Is it Working and How?
	Dave Gee, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark

12.10hrs	Worker Clinics and Occupational Cancer
	Simon Pickvance, SOHAS, The Sheffield UK Experience

12.20hrs	10 minutes for questions

Updated:  21 January 2008
12.30hrs	Lunch
 

Provisional Programme

 

Friday 25 April 2008	Afternoon Session	Chair:  Tommy Gorman, 
                                                                           
                                                University of Stirling
	 
  

Solutions 2	NGO, Legal, Trade Union and Industry Perspectives
	 


13.30hrs	Cancer prevention – what we can learn from beyond 
Scotland. The National Committee on Environmental & Occupational Exposures 
(NCEOE)(Canada) Larry Stoffman, Chair NCEOE, Director OHS UFCW. Canada


14.00hrs	Occupational Cancer and Cancer Prevention in France
	Dr Christophe Coutanceau, INSERM, France.

	The International, European and UK Trade Union View of 
Occupational Cancer Prevention

14.10hrs	Fiona Murie, BWI

14.20hrs	The European TU Perspective, ETUI – HESA

14.40hrs	John Mclean, National HSO, GMB


14.55hrs	Environmental / NGO Perspectives


15.15hrs	10 minutes for questions

15.25hrs	Break with Refreshments

15.55hrs	Tried and tested solutions to occupational cancer exposure
	Toxic Use Reduction:  What it is and how it works
	Pam Civie, Industry Research Program Manager, Toxics Use Reduction 
Institute, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA

16.15hrs	An Industry Perspective on Toxics Reduction
	Speaker TBC

16.35hrs	Roundtable on International Occupational Cancer Campaigns 
with Questions.

	Hugh Robertson, TUC
	Steve Mullins, ACTU OHS Officer, Melbourne, Australia
	Laurie Kazan-Allen, BAN Campaign Analysis
	Pam Civie, USA; Fiona Murie, Geneva

£300 delegate fee for scientists and academics

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