Roadmap on Carcinogens Conference
“Working together to eliminate occupational cancer”
27 – 28 November 2019
Helsinki, Finland, House of the Estates
Day 1 - Wednesday 27 November 2019
Moderator Brenda O´Brien
Manager of the Brussels Liaison Office Brussels, EU-OSHA
13.00 – 14.10 Welcome and opening session:
Aino-Kaisa Pekonen
Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
Tamara van Ark
State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment, Netherlands (video)
Brigitte Zarfl
Minister of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection,
Austria (video)
Björn Böhning
State Secretary, Germany
Stefan Olsson,
Director of EMPL B, European Commission
14.10 – 14.15 Roadmap on Carcinogens: follow-up and achievements,
(video)
14.15 - 14.30 Where are we now and the way forward. Overview of the
development of the legislation on protection of workers from health and
safety risks from exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work
Charlotte Grevfors, Head of Unit, DG EMPL, European Commission
14.30 - 15.00 Social Partners: Activities and cooperation
Jessie Fernandes, BusinessEurope
M. Pelle Hilmersson, ETUC
09.00 – 09.25 Reporting on the outcomes of the Workshops
Chairspersons of the workshops
09.25 – 09.50 Carcinogens and Healthy workplace campaign 2018/19.
Conclusions and future perspectives/EU-OSHA worker exposure survey on
cancer risk factors
Christa Sedlatschek, Executive Director, Dr., EU-OSHA
09.50 – 10.15 ECHA contribution to OSH regulation
Björn Hansen, Executive Director, ECHA
10.15 – 10.45 Short break
10.45 – 11.00 Working together to eliminate occupational cancer.
Austrian focus campaign on carcinogens.
Katrin Arthaber, Central Labour Inspectorate, Austria
11.00 – 11.45 Round Table Discussion with the EU Social Partners and Key
Players - what have we achieved until now and what remains to be done?
Success stories of the Roadmap.
European Commission, EU-OSHA, NL, AT, FI, DE, ETUC, EIG
11.45 – 12.00 Continuation of the Roadmap on Carcinogens
An official act, Finland-Germany
Concluding remarks:
Stefan Olsson, Director, DG EMPL European Commission
Raimo Antila, Director General, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health,
Finland