4^th International Conference and Exhibition on Occupational Health & Safety August 24-25, 2015 Toronto, Canada

Henrietta is the Executive Director for Health and Community Services at the Public Services Health and Safety Association. She is a Canadian Certified Occupational Health Nurse, Canadian Registered Safety Professional, Certified Disability Management Professional and is also a Faculty member for the Disability Management Certificate Program through the National Institute for Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR). She has spoken at provincial, national and international conferences on the subject of Disability Management, workplace violence prevention, bullying and Healthy Work Environments. She was a member of CSA Technical Committee for Z316.6-07 (R2012) - Evaluation of Single-Use and Reusable Medical Sharps Containers for Biohazardous and Cytotoxic Waste, And a Co Principle Investigator of the Employee Participation in Change Program (EPIC) project.

Health and Community Services

Dr. Richard Hanowski is a Senior Research Scientist and serves as the Director of the Center for Truck & Bus Safety (CTBS) at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. He has been involved in transportation research since 1991 and has led many light vehicle and heavy vehicle safety studies for government and industry. He has served as the Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on over $50 million of contract research and has authored over 200 publications. His research focuses on safety and health issues associated with commercial vehicle operations. Findings from Dr. Hanowski’s research have generated practical, in-depth knowledge that has benefited government, commercial vehicle operations (including drivers and fleet management), equipment manufacturers, academia, and the public. His 2009 research on driver distraction in commercial vehicle operations helped foster an international dialogue that led to policies and regulations designed to reduce driver distraction and improve safety.

Safety

Grechanina Elena Y. MD, professor since 1990, is the general director of “Genetics”, which is composed of a Medical Genetics Center, Department of Medical Genetics KhNMU, Ukrainian Institute of Clinical Genetics. She is the principal clinical consultant. Since 2005, a corresponding member of NAMS Ukraine, and in 2007 a honorary citizen of the city of Kharkiv. In 2012-2014, she published 38 articles on the metabolic, epigenetic and mitochondrial diseases, prenatal diagnosis and foliate-methionine cycle. She was involved in the study of occupational health problems of physicians from the start of her service.

Medical Genetics, metabolic, epigenetic and mitochondrial diseases, occupational health problems

Dr.Ilise L Feitshans JD and ScM and DIR is a bi-lingual lawyer with a Master’s of Science in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University, where she examined the role of women’s rights to genetic information. Ilise won awards for her path breaking Senior Scholars Honors thesis for Barnard College, entitled “Occupational Health From an International Perspective” compared laws and their implementation in three nations and under international law; it became the blueprint of her life’s work. She wrote the chapter “Occupational Health as a Human right” for the ILO Encyclopedia, and is the author of the treatise DEIGNING AN EFFECTIVE OSHA COMPLIANCE PROGRAM, which addresses law and occupational medicine. The non-lawyer version, BRINGING HEALTH TO WORK describes law and policy issues in reproductive health at work, ethics of occupational safety and health; methods for achieving corporate compliance with occupational safety and health laws, and provides the theoretical basis for the justification of safety and health programs. Her articles and press releases have been published in many nations. Ilise has given university level presentations in both English and French, especially at the UN in her former capacity as Coordinatrice of the Encyclopedia for Safety and Health, ILO, Geneva Switzerland. Ilise taught legislative drafting at the Columbia University School of Law in the City of New York, and in turn, Ilise has drafted laws from the local level (NYC Board of Health regulations concerning confidential testing of minors for HIV) to the international level, (ILO Memoranda of Understanding with non-profit organizations and with the US government) and in 2013, a report to the Council of Europe that was accepted after full debated by the full Parliamentary Assembly, “Nanotechnology: balancing benefits and risks to public health and the environment”.

Occupational Health, Occupational Medicine

Massimo Cecaro after completing the high school in humanistic studies, moved to the University of Camerino, where he got a Master Degree in Veterinary Medicine and in University of Teramo. At the age of 24, he obtained a qualification to practice as a Journalist and in 2007 he was admitted to the National Association of Medical Press (ASMI), where he currently holds the position of National Councilor. He is Resident Member of MJA Medical Journalists Association (London). He has been lecturer of Communication in Medical Sciences in many Universities. He has been an invited speaker at international events in the field of Public Health and Safety. He has been author of several scientific works in public health. He is also director of a prestigious Educational Center for work safety and public health. He is actively involved in international projects to improve the role of mass-media in medical sciences, and awarded in Philadelphia, with international special recognition.

Medical and scientific communication, Risk analysis, Epidemiology, Work safety, Food safety

Dr. Muhammed Wasif Rashid Chaudhary MBBS, MBA, CSSGB, CTQM, CPHQ is working as Asst. Medical Director at Ahalia Hospital in United Arab Emirates. He has 15 years of experience in healthcare field. He had worked also as Medical Superintendent and Quality Manager 8 years in the same health care facility.His interest is in continuous quality improvement and patient safety. He is licensed general practitioner and continuing his responsibility as a physician. Dr. Wasif is certified professional in healthcare quality (CPHQ). That credential covers field of quality, case/care/disease/utilization and risk management and emphasizes how all these programs and processes integrate into an effective system.

Medical Superintendent and Quality Manager

Roger Belair joined Dumas in mid 2012 as Director of Health, Safety and Environment to progress the company’s safety programs and culture. He is responsible for providing strategic direction, program design and implementation, and oversight for the global health, safety and environment department. Mr. Belair works closely with regional safety managers at each operation to ensure that safety guidance is offered to employees, clients and stakeholders. He is a seasoned health and safety professional with more than 24 years of experience, and has held senior safety leadership roles at Atomic Energy of Canada and Rio Tinto Alcan. A Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), he holds both the Fellowship in Risk Management (FRM) and Canadian Risk Manager (CRM) designations. In addition, Mr. Belair has several diplomas in safety leadership and risk management obtained from various Canadian institutions.

global health, safety and environment

Maria Meimei Brevidelli has completed his Ph.D. at the age of 39 years from São Paulo University, Brazil. She is a Professor of Postgraduate and Undergraduate Nursing School, and member of Research Group on Public Health of Paulista University. She has published about 15 papers in reputed journals.

Public Health

Prof. Sayed Ashour Ahmed, graduated from Assiut University, Egypt in 1967 in the field of Pest Control, then awarded MSc from the same Department in 1970, then PhD from Weed Science Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan in 1982. Since that he worked in Plant Protection Dept of Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University as Lecturer (1982-1987), then Associate Professor (1987-1992). From 1992 he has been working as Professor in the same Dept in the field of Pesticides with focus on Herbicide Science. He also worked as a Manager of Assiut University Center for Environmental and Research Studies (1992-1993), Manager of Wadi-El-Assiuti Protected Area, Assiut (1996-2003) and Manager of Center of Research Funding and International Publication (2013 till now) as part time deputation. He got several awards mainly: Arab Universities League Award for the Best Research (2006), Prof. M. S. Elfangary Encouraging Award for Best Theoretical and Applied Study for Serving Egypt (2007 & 2009), Assiut University Award for Distinguished Teaching (2007), Assiut University Award of Appreciation in Agricultural Science (2010), Simplification of Science Award, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt (2011). After 45 years working (research and education) he have published more than 60 research and working papers in international and local Journals and conferences in the field of environmental and pesticides science

Pesticides and environmental research mainly in the field of herbicides

He has completed his PhD at Technical University, Prague in 1980, topic of his thesis was “Radon 222 in water its properties and removal”. Since 1983, he has been a head of Radio ecological Department in T. G. Masaryk Water Research Institute, p.r.i., leader of research project and studies. He has published results of work in reputed journals. He is scientific guarantee of conference Radionuclide s in water management (1978-2014) and Radiological methods (2003-2013). Further, he is a member of commission for doctoral degrees Charles University of Prague and he participates in development of Czech Standards for Determination of Radionuclide s in Water as a co-author.

Radio ecological

Fabienne -Fariba Salimi is a senior HSE consultant and has more than 25 years of experience in process safety engineering in the chemical and oil & gas industries, both onshore and offshore. She has a particular expertise in risk-based design and identifying safety-critical systems and developing their performance standards in compliance with ISO 55000. Since March 1994, she has been the Project Manager of Multiplan R&F in France and later the ADEPP Academy in the UK. She is also the co-developer and project manager for developing the ADEPP monitor, an online innovative tool for identifying safety-critical equipment and management of their performance standards. She obtained her PhD in chemical engineering from “Ecole Centrale Paris” in 1996. Her main qualifications were obtained in Iran and France and she is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE) and the International Society for Instrumentation (ISA).

safety engineering, risk-based design and safety-critical systems