BSOH Seminar: Endocrine disruptors in the workplace
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Attention: The BSOH seminar on Endocrine disruptors in the workplace is now at capacity. There are no more places left.
Registrants who are unable to attend are kindly requested to cancel their registration online in order to free up their place for others.
Dear friends of occupational hygiene,
We are particularly proud of the programme on endocrine disruptors that our Seminar Director Lucie Huyghebaert has put together for you.
On Friday 19/04/2024, we would like to welcome you to our national seminar on endocrine disruptors in the workplace. More information about this seminar can be found at the link below. We do kindly request you to register in good time.
Endocrine disruptors in the workplace
During this seminar, several experts will again take a closer look at this topic. In the morning, we will discuss the possible health effects of endocrine disruptors, both for employees and for their offspring. We will get an insight into the National Action Plan on Endocrine Disruptors to get an idea of what the future holds. We try to estimate what health effects may occur and how endocrine disruptors are classified according to legislation.
In the afternoon, we will look at the difficulties of tackling this issue practically at the workplace. We will explore what studies are possible, what systems of risk analysis are available and how to deal with this important but difficult topic preventively.
hope to see you then
Information and registration: online, on the seminar website
Moderators:
| Fabian Lejeune (BSOH Chair) |
| Lucie Huyghebaert (Liantis, BSOH Board) |
Program:
| Time | No | Title | Language | Speaker | Organisation | |
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| 09:00 | Welcome | |||||
| 09:30 | 0 | Introduction | EN | Fabian Lejeune Lucie Huyghebaert |
BSOH Chairman Seminar Director |
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| 09:40 | 1 |
The National Action Plan on Endocrine Disruptors (NAPED)
An action plan has been implemented in June 2022 in Belgium in order to decrease the exposure of the population and of the environment to endocrine disruptors. This action plan is based on the collaboration between the different competent authorities at federal, regional and regional levels, and with the stakeholders. Several types of actions are currently ongoing: preventive actions, regulatory actions and research-based actions. This first action plan will end in December 2026.
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EN | EN | Sandrine Jouan, PhD | FPS Health, Food chain safety and Environment |
| 10:30 | 2 |
Van humane biomonitoring tot een gezondheidsindicator voor hormoonverstoorders in de Omgevingsrapportage
Ann Colles: beschrijving van de Vlaamse HBM door het Steunpunt Omgeving en Gezondheid
Caroline Teughels: gezondheidsindicator voor blootstelling aan hormoonverstorende stoffen voor Omgevingsrapportage |
EN | NL | Ann Colles dr. Caroline Teughels |
Vito Departement Omgeving, Vlaams Planbureau voor Omgeving (DOMG, VPO) |
| 11:10 | Break | |||||
| 11:30 | 3 |
Identification and communication of endocrine disruptors: from REACH to CLP
How are endocrine disruptors identified in the EU? Where can you find information on endocrine disruptors?
With the notion of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC), REACH provided the first framework for identification and communication on Endocrine disruptors. The hazard class endocrine disruption is since 2023 added in the CLP regulation. |
EN | NL (EN) | ir. Tine Cattoor | Essenscia |
| 12:20 | Lunch | |||||
| 13:20 | 4 |
Occupational exposure to endocrine disruptors : challenges, difficulties, and advices for preventionists and occupational physicians
(Expositions professionnelles aux perturbateurs endocriniens : enjeux, difficultés, et conseils pour les préventeurs et les médecins du travail) With a definition of endocriene disruptors and its mechanism of actions we will discuss the possible health effects. With a small overview of the legislation and the sectors at risk we will discuss the sources of exposure. This will lead us to how companies control this group of Chemicals, which tools exist and which obstacles they might Encounter and how the occupational physician can approach this subject.
(Définition des pertubateurs endocrine Mécanismes d’action on toxicité et effects sur la santé. Législation Sources d’expositions – secteurs à risque Quelle approche dans les entreprises ? – outils et obstacles Quelle approche par le médecin du travail ?) |
FR | FR | dr. Lorane Elias | Liantis |
| 14:10 | 5 | Cas d'étude : Un perturbateur endocrinien dans du mobilier ? | EN | FR | Emmanuelle Boilan, PhD | Wakari |
| 14:40 | 6 | The difficulties of real prevention when looking at endocrine disruptors. | EN | NL | Ing. Lucie Huyghebaert | Liantis |
| 14:55 | Closing remarks | EN | Fabian Lejeune Lucie Huyghebaert |
Chairman BSOH Seminar Director |
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| 15:10 | End of program | |||||
| 15:10 | Break | |||||
| 15:20 | General Assembly Assemblée Générale des Membres Algemene LedenVergadering |
FR/NL | Fabian Lejeune Tom Van de Voorde Robert Emonds |
Chairman Secretary Treasurer |
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| 16:30 | End of meeting | |||||
Rates:
This seminar is free for members of the Belgian Society for Occupational Hygiene (BSOH).
Seminar fee is 75.- EUR for non-members. Membership until 31/12/2024 is included.
Registrations:
Not later than 16/04/2024 16:00.
BSOH members register online on the seminar website.
Location: Haute Ecole HE2B, Rue des Goujons 28, 1070 Anderlecht
See you soon,
| ir. Robert Emonds Treasury/Memberships/IT
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Herestraat 49 box 952 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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