Tuesday September 7th, 2010: 15:45 – 17:15 

By progressively embedding safety principles into innovation processes and products, industry can contribute to competitiveness while increasing worker safety and public acceptance.

Industrial safety is multi-sectorial by definition: can lessons learnt from research in a specific industrial sector benefit other ones?

What research and innovation is needed to overcome existing occupation health, safety and environmental issues including those related to new technologies ? 

Chair

• Richard Gowland, European Process Safety (UK)

Speakers

• H. Wenzel, Vienna Consulting Engineers (Austria)

• Knut Øien, Senior Scientist at SINTEF Safety and Reliability, Trondheim (Norway)

• Emmanuelle Brun, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA (EU) on ‘Making Europe a safer, healthier, and more productive place to work’