Ramazzini Days 2013

Meeting of the Executive Council (EC members only)
Hotel Touring

Welcome dinner
Ristorante La Bottiglieria, Hotel Touring

Council of Fellows Statutory Session (Fellows only)
Town Hall of Carpi

Lunch
Ristorante La Bottiglieria, Hotel Touring

SCIENTIFIC SESSION I: WORK OF THE FELLOWS
co-chairs: Melissa McDiarmid, USA and Carol Rice, USA
Sala dei Mori, Palazzo dei Pio
 

PRESENTATION OF THE RAMAZZINI AWARD AND RAMAZZINI LECTURE
Sala dei Mori, Palazzo dei Pio
 

SPECIAL RECOGNITION BY THE COLLEGIUM RAMAZZINI
Sala dei Mori, Palazzo dei Pio
 

SCIENTIFIC SESSION II:
“Occupational and environmental health and safety in a changing global economy”
Chair: Ronald Dobbin, USA

Recent global economic changes are having negative effects on occupational and environmental health. For example, increased world metal prices have led to inappropriate artisanal mining and smelting in developing countries that, in turn, have resulted in excessive worker and community exposures. Movement of production and toxic waste to lesser-developed countries, i.e. those with cheaper labor and weaker environmental and occupational health and safety regulations, from developed countries has resulted in problems in both. Increased numbers of low-wage workers in developing countries have unhealthy and unsafe working and living conditions while depleted production sites, unemployment and an unmitigated legacy of pollution are left behind in the developed countries. Workplace and environmental disasters have especially affected vulnerable women, children and immigrant workers. Case studies are presented to illustrate some of these problems including: an environmental disaster in Nigeria with the death of children from lead contamination from artisanal gold mining and the subsequent public health response; the workplace fatalities in Bangladesh with the collapse of the Rana Plaza and the series of fatal factory fires; the movement of electronic waste to developing countries from developed countries; the multiple problems of a major steel plant in Italy; and the impact of development in Mongolia.