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Place: Room Storck, FPS Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue, Ernest Blerotstreet 1, 1070 Brussels

Following the success of the 1st ‘Nano in Belgium’ Workshop which was focusing on the interplay between regulation and research, the FPS Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue, the FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment and the FPS Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy would like to kindly invite interested parties to the 2nd edition of this event.

This edition will be organized by the Belgian EU-OSHA Focal point in the framework of the 2018-19 “ Healthy Workplaces Manage Dangerous Substances “campaign that aims to raise awareness of the risks posed by chemicals in the workplace and to promote a culture of risk prevention. Within the large field of chemicals, nanomaterials are a fast expanding group with specific characteristics.

This theme will be linked with the state-of-play on national and European regulations  and the findings from various Belgian research projects.

Contact: nanoevents@environment.belgium.be

Program:

President: Dr. Karel Van Damme

  • 8:30 – 9:00: Registration
  • 9:00 – 9:15: Welcome (Lieve Ponnet, acting Director General of the General Direction Humanisation of Labour, FPS Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue)

Protection on the workfloor

  • 9:15 – 9:30 Belgian legislation (Linda Wouters, FPS Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue)
  • 9:30 – 9:50  Point of view of ETIUI (Aida Ponce, ETUI)
  • 9:50 – 10:10 Work safely with nanomaterials: the VITO case (Sandra Verstraelen, VITO)
  • 10:10 – 10:25 Questions
  • 10:25 – 10:45 Coffee break

Legislation on nanomaterials

  • 10:45 – 11:00 The Swedish register (Ekatherine Lagovardos, KEMI)
  • 11:00 – 11:15 The Belgian-register (Benjamin Delcourt, FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment)
  • 11:15 – 11:30 r-Nano, 5 years of reporting nanoparticles (Damien De Geeter, French  Ministry of the Ecological and Solidarity Transition, Chemicals Office)
  • 11:30 – 11:45 Accredited measurements of nanoparticles’ size at the Belgian Metrology Institute (Jasmine Petry, FPS Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy)
  • 11:45 – 12:00 Contributions of the French Institute of Metrology (LNE) in the regulatory framework (Georges Favre, French Institute of Metrology)
  • 12:00 – 12:15 Nanomaterials under REACH (Andrej Kobe, EU COMM)
  • 12:15 – 12:30 Questions
  • 12:30 – 13:30: Lunch & poster session

Research projects

  • 13:30 – 14:00 To2DeNano (Peter Hoet, KU Leuven)
  • 14:00 – 14:30 The Nanofood@ / NanoAg@ projects (Eveline Verleysen, Sciensano)
  • 14:30 – 14:50 Nanomaterials in consumer products (Martine van Poppel, VITO)
  • 14:50 – 15:10 The Nanogra Project (Elodie Bouhoulle, ISSEP)
  • 15:10-15:25 Questions
  • 15:25 – 15:45 Coffee break
  • 15:45 – 16:15 The Nanostreem project
    Risk assessment & personal protection means (Dimiter Prodanov, IMEC) )
    Medical surveillance of nanoworkers (Eline Vandebroek, Premed)
  • 16:15 – 16:45 Exposure to inhalable nanoparticles at the work floor: how to determine (Evelien Frijns, VITO)
  • 16:45 – 17:15 Questions, wrap up and conclusions