5076.0 Global topics in occupational health and safety

Wednesday, November 2, 2011: 8:30 AM
Roundtable
The purpose of this session is to learn what are the efforts around the globe that colleagues in occupational health are conducting. It is relevant to know their challenges and accomplishments and compare them with the reality in the US. The potential of collaborations and exchange are valuable and this session in previous years have received good feedback and have been well attended.
Session Objectives: To discuss the experiences in occupational health from international perspectives To identify similarities and potential collaborations that can benefit workers in their occupational settings.
Organizer:
Homero Harari, MSc
Moderator:
Rima Habib, PhD

Table 1
Working conditions in the Arab world: A cue for political change
Rima R. Habib, PhD
Table 2
Impact and Effectiveness on Basic Occupational Health Interventions for the Informal Sector in Indonesia - A Qualitative Study
Hanifa Denny, MPH and Norbert Wagner, MD, PhD
Table 3
Use of occupational safety measures and health hazards among coal mine workers in Sindh, Pakistan
Mubeen Syed Muhammed, MBBS, MES, MCPS, MPH (Uni of Melbourne) and Jawaria Khan
Table 4
A profile of working age male immigrant deaths caused by unintentional injury in the United Arab Emirates
Susan M. Smith, EdD MSPH and Amina Sandal, Phd MPH
  
Table 5
Impact of Occupational Diseases in Spain
Salvador Moncada, Senior OHS researcher
  
Table 6
Challenges of the Spanish system of Safety and Health at Work: The effectiveness of preventive regulation and protection of workers against the damage caused by accidents
Francisco Jose Gualda
  
Table 7
Work Accidents in Spain after the last Legal Reforms
José Aureliano Martín Segura, PhD, Prof, José Luis Navarro Espigares, PhD, Prof, Mgr, Irene Martín Fernández, Student and Antonio R. Álvarez Sánchez, Álvarez
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by: International Health, Trade and Health Forum

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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