The Belgian Society for Occupational Hygiene is the Belgian scientific association for occupational hygiene. The first meeting took place on 8 June 1989. Since 4 June 1991 it operates as a non-profit association.
BSOH is dedicated to the discipline and the application of occupational hygiene.
The definition used by the International Occupational Hygiene Association is: "Occupational Hygiene is the discipline of anticipating, recognising, evaluating and controlling health hazards in the working environment with the objective of protecting worker health and well-being and safeguarding the community at large."
Why should you join BSOH? Keeping up, gaining new insights and exchange of experiences are essential to perform occupational hygiene asks in a professional way.
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In February 2020, the World Health Organization’s director-general declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) over the ongoing outbreak of the COVID-19 respiratory illness. Exceptional measures are in order to protect workers from infection with SARS-CoV-2. Occupational hygienists are the specialists par excellence in the field of control of the work environment as this is precisely their specific domain of work. In this capacity, they are the best placed of all specialists to develop necessary and useful guidelines to prevent the spread of this virus in the work environment.
Our seminar team selected four distinguished speakers, experts in their own field, to elaborate in depth about the virus, the disease, the exposure and about the prevention of transmission.
Date: 29th OCTOBER
Time: 18.00 CET / 19.00 Istanbul
Duration: 2 hours
Moderators: Sergio Luzzi, Yucel Demiral
Samuel Paik's rap video on how he became an industrial hygienist and on the influence his father Namwon Paik – also known as the grandfather of IH in Korea – had on his career choice.
Read also #IAmIH: Samuel Paik, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (4 min read)
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Due to the increasingly unfavorable evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, this event will be postponed until 2021. (update 19/10/2020)
