Dragoş Pîslaru is a Member of the European Parliament, a member of the Renew Europe Group and the Chair for the EU Commission on Employment & Social Affairs. The EAF foundation is very proud to announce that he will be presenting the Keynote Speech: on the new Asbestos at Work Directive, of course. Dragos has […]
Since 2000, Yvonne Waterman has visited and spoken at many asbestos conferences worldwide, from Washington to Yokohama and from Ottawa to Athens. All the time, she learned and wondered why so many countries have the same asbestos problems and at the same time haven’t a clue about the solutions their neighbours came up with. Yet the growing […]
After graduating as commercial engineer in Antwerp, Charlotte started her career at Eurofins coordinating projects within the Asbestos Business Line of Eurofins Netherlands. After leading projects on method development for the German and Belgian asbestos testing business and managing sales and operations in the Netherlands, she became the business manager for Asbestos Testing and Air […]
Nikolaj was the Rapporteur on the legislative initiative report on protecting workers from the European Parliament, which was adopted in the end of last year. Now he is leading the work on making the report a reality and to put pressure on the European Commission, which will present its proposal after summer. The importance of […]
Angelo de Jong is the Head R & D of AC Minerals, a Dutch company specialising in the denaturation of asbestos. He will give a very inspirational presentation on the break-through achieved by AC Minerals: to denature asbestos fibres in asbestos cement safely and affordably by means of water and energy. (As we all know, […]
Alexandre holds a Master’s degree in biomedical engineering from the Faculty of Medicine of Nancy. In 2008 he joined forces with a vascular doctor and another biomedical engineer to create BCL Invent. R&D Manager on medical projects, he will be presenting on a new way of encapsulating asbestos fibres during asbestos removal: by means of gel.
Federica is the well-known Senior Researcher of the Italian INAIL and has worked as a researcher in the asbestos sector since 1996. Since 1999, she is the Team Leader of the Asbestos Risk Research Group for INAIL and as such has great experience in supervising many research activities. She has completed many national and international research […]
Colette Willoughby’s career in the asbestos industry began in 1982: she has experience in all aspects of asbestos control, management, training and legal compliance, in addition to providing expert witness advice for both civil litigation and criminal prosecutions. Colette is also the Managing Director of Asbestos Compliance Limited (ACL). Over the years, Colette has actively […]
The UK & Ireland Sales Manager for Sündstrom, Tony Smith, has over 40 years’ experience within the Health and Safety Industry. At Senior Management level with Arco, he was involved in a wide cross section of industry sectors and has since consolidated his experience with NEBOSH Safety and Degree qualifications. Since joining Sündstrom nine years […]
Robin Bennett is a director at Start Software, the developers of the market-leading Alpha Tracker® asbestos system. Working with asbestos consultancies and their clients for 20 years, Robin and his team are acknowledged to be experts in the field of asbestos data management. Start Software’s Alpha Tracker® alone holds data for more than 6 million buildings and […]
