...........................................................................................................................................................................9 9 2 AVE XA04NO301 - 34 HSE Health &Safety Executive INIS-XA-N--030 S '4&SSeSSMMe1M' E II N I N T E R N A T I N A L C 0 N F E R E N C E 1 9 9 2 .00000 .... a 0 ...... 0 .... .0.0.00.0. 5 - 9 October 1992 Queen Elizabeth 11 Conference Centre, Westminster, London ...........................................................................................................................................................................9 9 2 Page I- 7 Programme Session I What is risk assessment and what do we want from it? I 0 Welcome Address Sir John Cullen 11-13 Opening Remarks Dr Bill Hunter 14 Brief Introductory Remarks Dr Kazutaka Kogi 15 Opening Remarks Dr Jim Brydon 16-17 Risk Assessment Dr Stanislaw Tarkowski 18-19 Opening Address Secretary of State for Employment 20-27 Overview of Risk Assessment John Rimington 28-31 Risk Assessment: A Consumer's Perspective Dame Rachel Waterhouse 32-35 An Employee/Trade Union Perspective to Risk Assessment Pekka 0 Aro 3644 Risk Assessment: An Employer's Perspective K C Williams 45-53 Risk Assessment - the Perspective and Experience of US Environmentalists Dr Ellen Silbergeld 54-63 The Transformation of the Industrial Economy into a Service Economy: the Function of Technology and the Role of Insurance in the Management of Risk Professor Orio Giarini Session 2 The role of risk assessment in international policy 66-77 ILO Activities in the Field of Risk Assessment Dr Chandra Pinnagoda 78-87 The Role of Risk Assessment in the Work of the World Health Organization in Europe Dr Kees A van der Heijden 88-94 An OECD Perspective of the Role of Risk Assessment in Policy Development Dr Jim Brydon 95-99 Risk Assessment - A European Community Perspective Ron Haigh 100-112 Risk Assessment and the Environment Dr David Fisk 113-119 Occupational and Environmental Risk Assessment Problems in Central European Countries Needs and What has been Achieved - Poland as an Example Dr Tadeusz Sulkowski 120-130 Risk Assessment: A Regional Approach Milos Paleek 131-138 Panel Discussion ...........................................................................................................................................................................9 9 2 Session 3 Risk assessment in practice 140-152 General Approaches to the Risk Assessment of Chemicals Patrick Murphy 153-161 Risk Assessment of Chemicals - A Central European Perspective Professor Nadimir Bencko, Professor y6rgy Ungvdry 162-165 Pesticide Risk Assessment in the United States Dr Richard Hill 166-172 An Industry Approach to the Risk Assessment of Pesticides Dr Barry Thomas 173-182 Radiation Protection Standards - A Practical Exercise in Risk Assessment Dr Roger Clarke 183-188 Panel Discussion Session 4 Risk assessment in practice 190-203 Food and Drinking Water Safety: Can Risk Assessment Help Us to Get Our Priorities Right? Dr H B Denner 204-209 Microbiological Risk Assessment and Public Health Dr Roger Skinner 210-220 Chemical Safety of Food and Drinking Water Dr Maged Younes - Dr Kees A van Der Heijden 221-226 Risk Assessment in the Context of EC Directives on Genetically Modified Organisms Dr Piet van der Meer 227-237 Risk Assessment for Federal Regulatory Decisions on Organisms Produced Through Biotechnology Terry L Medley - Dr John H Payne 238-244 Panel Discussion ...........................................................................................................................................................................1 9 9 2 ...........................................................................................................................................................................1 9 9 2 "NORg I I T IME ............. -12 sesslion I 4 00 ri Iiiaix! olIt pg- "R MI 4IN III9 i11 splonq iss;ol 52 S.- OR 05" lol pl g ","LlP E -IM1,111"n ...........................................................................................................................................................................1 9 9 2 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Monday, October 1992 8.30 Registration and coffee What is risk assessment and what do 00*0000900000000000 we want from it? Chairman: Sir John Cullen Chairman, Health and Safety Commission, UK 9.30 Welcome address by Sir John Cullen. Brief introductory remarks by: Dr Bill Hunter Director, Health and Safety Directorate, European Commission Dr Kazutaka Kogi Director, Working Conditions and Environment Department, Internatio'nal Labour Office Dr Jim Brydon Head, Environmental Health Safety Division, Organization for Economic Co-operation and' Development Dr Stanislaw Tarkowski Director, Environment and Health, Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization 10.00 Opening address by the Secretary of State for Employment 10.15 Overview of risk assessment John Rimington Director General Health Safety Executive, UK The paper will review the fundamental concepts of risk assessment before moving on to consider how quantitative information is obtained about different risks, and how structured risk assessment can be used to assist decision making in many different fields. It will discuss some general aspects of risk perception and consider bow different groups go about deciding which risks are acceptable and which are not. 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Risk assessment "users": their views and needs: A consumer's perspective Dame Rachel Waterhouse Member of the Consumers' Association and of the Health Safety Commission, UK An employee/trade union perspective Pekka 0 Aro European Project of te Finnish Industrial Workers 2 1......................................................................................................................................................................... 9 9 2 An employer's perspective K C Williarns Vice President (Production) Exxon International, USA An environmentalist perspective Dr Ellen Silbergeld Professor of Pathology University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA 12.30 The transformation of the industrial economy into a service economy: the function of technology and the role of insurance Professor Orio Giarini Secretaire General The Geneva Association, Switzerland 13.00 Lunch The role of risk assessment in 00000000000000000 Internationalla 0 policy Chairman: ProfessorLeszek Pacholski Chairman, Council of Labour Protection, Poland 14.30 Risk assessment - the international scene The four papers in this session focus on the international role of risk assessment and what needs to be done to improve its contribution to priority setting and assisting developing countries. Speakers Dr ChandraPinnagoda Chief, Occupational Safety and Health Branch, International Labour Office Dr Kees A van der Heijden Director, Bilthoven Division European Centre for Environment and Health, World Health Organization Dr Jim Brydon Head, Environmental Health Safety Division, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Ron Haigh Head of Industrial Hygiene and Medicine Unit Commission of the European Communities 15.30 Risk assessment and the environment Dr David Fisk Chief Scientist Department of the Environment, UK Dr Fisk will discuss how risk assessment is being applied to environmental policy and suggest reasons for its apparent slow take-up. Taking man-made climate change as a case study, Dr Fisk will look at the pros and cons of extending risk assessment techniques over wide areas of government policy. 3 ...........................................................................................................................................................................1 9 9 2 16.00 Tea 16.30 Central European countries' needs and what has been achieved Dr Tadeusz Sulkowski Chief Labour Inspector, Poland Dr Sulkowski will discuss the current state of the region's industrial infrastructure and the changes expected in the next few years. Risk assessment: A local point of view Milos Pale6ek Director, Occupational Safety Research Institute, Czechoslovakia Mr Pale6ek will focus on Northern Bohemia, which is suffering the devastating consequences of long-term pollution. 17.30 Panel discussion of the day's proceedings. RAPPORTEURS Jim Hammer President, International Association of Labour Inspection Professor Jerry Jeyaratnam Head of the Occupational Medicine Division, University of Singapore 18.30-20.30 Cocktail reception at QEII Centre hosted by an Employment Department Minister. ...........................................................................................................................................................................1 9 9 2 Tuesday, 6 October 11992 Risk assessment in practice 0000000000*0000000 Chairman: Dr Kerstin Niblaeus National Chemicals Inspectorate, Sweden 9.30 General approaches to risk assessment of chemicals Patrick Murphy European Commission, Directorate-General XI This paper will provide an overview of the process of chemical risk assessment and give an insight into how the process is applied in practice by scientists and regulators. 10.00 Risk Assessment of chemicals in Central Europe Professor J,7adimirBencko Head of te Institute of Hygiene, Charles University, Czechoslovakia Professor Gydrgy Ungviry Acting Director, National Institute of Occupational Health, Hungary The authors will discuss how Central European countries have assessed the impact of chemicals on the environment and human health. They will focus on the reliance placed on limit values, and how this approach