Program 2015 Event
| 08.45 -09.20 | Registration and light continental breakfast |
| 09.20 – 09.30 | Welcome, Yvonne Waterman (organiser, European Asbestos Forum) Introduction of the Chairman, Hans van der Wart (Shield Group International) |
| Plenary session in the Grand Ballroom | |
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| 09.30 – 10.00 | Opening speech, Marcelis Boereboom (Director General of the Ministry for Social Affairs and Employment) |
| 10.00 – 10.20 | A message from Independent Asbestos Training Providers, Wayne Williams (IATP) |
| 10.20 – 10.40 | Improving asbestos labour conditions by sharing information, Mark Wit (Oesterbaai) |
| 10.40 – 10.50 | Break |
| 10.50 – 11.10 | Asbestos: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams, Linda Reinstein (ADAO) |
| 11.10 – 12.00 | Keynote speech. High-risk occupations: the need for prevention, Dr. Richard Lemen USPHS (ret.) Ph.D., M.S.P.H., (retired US Assistant Surgeon General and Acting Director of US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Luncheon in the Winter Garden |
| Exhibition | Tony Rich (a.k.a. Asbestos Hunter/Asbestorama) |
| Cabinet expo | Harry Vonk (Teamplayer) |
| A | Asbestos & Labour |
| 13.00 – 13.20 | The Italian fight against Eternit, Nicola Pondrano (CGIL) |
| 13.20 – 13.40 | Asbestos and the installation sector: a fine line between H&S and environment, Arco Engelen (Dutch Social Partners) |
| 13.40 – 14.00 | The Dutch approach of asbestos victims: plenty of room to grow! Lydia Charlier LL.M. (Beer Lawyers) |
| 14.00 – 14.20 | National diversity of compensation schemes, global economic relations and labour standards in supply chains, Christian Lahnstein LL.M. (Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich, Member of the European centre of tort an insurance law) |
| 14.20 – 14.40 | Break |
| 14.40 – 15.00 | The Turkish implementation of European asbestos legislation, Dilan Yesilyurt (Turkish Ministery for Labour and Social Security, Occupational Health and Safety Institute) |
| 15.00 – 15.20 | Asbestos in schools, Wayne Williams (DMW Safety) |
| 15.20 – 16.00 | Panel debate |
| 16.00 – 16.15 | Break and return to the Grand Ballroom |
| B | Asbestos & Technological Developments |
| 13.00 – 13.20 | The asbestos incubator technique, Ruud Janssen (Dutch asbestos removal company Het Zuiden) |
| 13.20 – 13.40 | The use of technology to deliver competence, Nick Garland (Assure Risk Management) |
| 13.40 – 14.00 | Asbestos stripping in the USA, Tony Rich (Cardno ATC) |
| 14.00 – 14.20 | English asbestos stripping innovations, Mark Winter (SMH Products) |
| 14.20 – 14.40 | Break |
| 14.40 – 15.00 | The importance of a real estate register, Ir. Joris Gribnau (Shield Group International) |
| 15.00 – 15.20 | Differences in European asbestos legislation and practice, Dr. Herm Zweerts (Arcadis) |
| 15.20 – 16.00 | Panel debate |
| 16.00 – 16.15 | Break and return to the Grand Ballroom |
| C | Asbestos, European Policy & Raising Awareness |
| 13.00 – 13.20 | Asbestos Removal Companies: regulatory control in Spain, Dr. Gonzalo Zufia (the Spanish Asbestos Removal Contractors Association ANEDES) |
| 13.20 – 13.40 | The importance of asbestos awareness, Barry Robson (Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia) |
| 13.40 – 14.00 | Asbestos: distorted risk perception, Linda Reinstein (Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization) |
| 14.00 – 14.20 | Hopeful treatment of asbestos cancers, Prof. Nico van Zandwijk (Asbestos Diseases Research Institute) |
| 14.20 – 14:40 | Break |
| 14:40 – 15.00 | Burden of Asbestos-related Diseases in Europe, Prof. Gert van der Laan (Temporary WHO Consultant in Asbestos-related Diseases and Chairperson of ICOH SH Rural Health) |
| 15.00 – 15.20 | Asbestos related lung cancer – an underestimated causal link, Prof.Dr. Thomas Kraus (Institut für Arbeitsmedizin und Sozialmedizin Aachen) |
| 15.20 – 16.00 | Panel debate |
| 16.00 – 16.15 | Break and return to the Grand Ballroom |
| Plenary session in the Grand Ballroom | |
| 16.15 – 16.25 | Special Recognition Award |
| 16.25 – 16.30 | Concluding speech, Yvonne Waterman and Hans van der Wart (Shield Group International) |
| Convivial closing drinks for networking | |
| 18.00 – 21.00 | Optionally: Conference Dinner |