November 19-21, 2004, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Table of Contents
November 19, 2004:
Opening Ceremony
Moderators: Yoko Tomiyama and Sugio Furuya
Yuji Furukawa, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW),
Japan
Isao Noda, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Japan
Mitsuko Horiuchi, ILO Office in Japan
Seiko Hayashi, Japan Trade Union Confederation (JTUC-RENGO),
Japan
Fiona Murie, International Federation of Building and Wood Workers
(IFBWW), Switzerland
Laurie Kazan-Allen, International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS),
the U.K.
Yoshiomi Temmyo, GAC2004 Organizing Committee, Japan
Session 1: Global Health Impact of Asbestos: Urgent Action is Needed
Chairs: Kazutaka Kogi and Laurie Kazan-Allen
Session 2: Environmental Exposure, Crisis Preparedness and Risk Communication
Chairs: Mari Christine and Sumiko Oshima
- PL-2-01 Health Effects among World Trade Center Responders
Stephen Levin, World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical
Screening Program, Mount Sinai-Irving J. Selikoff Center for
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Community
and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the U.S.A.
- PL-2-02 Asbestos Emission Caused by Demolition of Buildings after the
Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
Terazono Atsushi, Social and Environmental System Division and
Research Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management, National
Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
- PL-2-03 Asbestos in Ship-Breaking Business in Bangladesh
Chowdhury Repon, Bangladesh Occupational Health, Safety and
Environment Foundation, Bangladesh
- PL-2-04 Consumers' Activities on Asbestos Issues in Malaysia
Thambyappa Jeyabalan, Consumers' Association of Penang (CAP),
Malaysia
- PL-2-05 Living in the Shadow of the Asbestos Hills (The Need for Risk
Based Cleanup Strategies for Environmental Asbestos
Contamination in South Africa)
Robert Jones, Rhodes University Department of Environmental Science,
South Africa
- PL-2-06 Risk Communication Ð A Case Study: Accidental Exposure to
Asbestos of Nursery School Children
Iwao Uchiyama, Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan
- PL-2-07 Lessons of Risk Communication Regarding Remaining Sprayed
Asbestos in Local Schools
Seiji Ikejiri, Nerima Ward Assembly Member, Tokyo, Japan
- PL-2-08 Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma due to Working at a Stationery
Store where Sprayed Asbestos had been Used
Yuji Natori, Hirano-Kameido Himawari Clinic, Japan
Discussion . . .
Session 3: Empowerment of Victims and Their Families
Panel: Japanese Asbestos Victims and Families
Chairs: Yuji Natori and Annie Thebaud-Mony
- PL-3-01 Supporting Actions for Asbestos Victims
Yuji Natori, Mesothelioma Pneumoconiosis Asbestos Center, Japan
- PL-3-02 Activities of the Japan Association of Mesothelioma and
Asbestos-Related Disease Victims and Their Families
Kazunori Uekusa, Japan Association of Mesothelioma and Asbestos-
Related Diseases Victims and Their Families, Japan
- PL-3-03 Asbestosis: My Pain from Asbestosis
Rinzo Uno, Japan Association of Mesothelioma and Asbestos-
Related Diseases Victims and Their Families, Japan
- PL-3-04 Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Fighting Against the Disease
Late Norio Kato, Japan Association of Mesothelioma and Asbestos-
Related Diseases Victims and Their Families, Japan
Presented by Katsuyasu Iida, Tokyo Occupational Safety and Health
Center
- PL-3-05 Asbestos Related Lung Cancer: As One of the Victims
Fumitoshi Saito, Japan Association of Mesothelioma and Asbestos-
Related Diseases Victims and Their Families, Japan
- PL-3-06 Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: After Losing My Husband
Kaeko Omori, Japan Association of Mesothelioma and Asbestos-
Related Diseases Victims and Their Families, Japan
- PL-3-07 Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma: My Experience Nursing My
Father
Mie Saito, Japan Association of Mesothelioma and Asbestos-
Related Diseases Victims and Their Families, Japan
- PL-3-08 Asbestos Related Lung Cancer: After Losing My Husband
Kazuko Furukawa, Japan Association of Mesothelioma and Asbestos-
Related Diseases Victims and Their Families, Japan
- PL-3-09 Parental Anti-Asbestos Activity and its Empowerment
Anonym, A guardian of S Nursery School, Japan
- PL-3-10 Empowerment of Victims and Their Families in France
Annie Thebaud-Mony, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche
Medicale (INSERM), France
- PL-3-11 Situation and Activities of Asbestos Victims in a Developing
Country: ABREA in Brazil
Fernanda Giannasi, Brazilian Association of Asbestos Victims
(ABREA), Brazil
- PL-3-12 Environmental Protection in Quebec
Roch Lanthier, Asbestos Victims Association of Quebec (AVAQ),
Canada
- PL-3-13 The Contributions of Asbestos Victims to World Public Health
James Fite, White Lung Association (WLA), the U.S.A.
- PL-3-14 Presentation by the Author of ÒLean on MeÓ Cancer Through a
Carer's Eyes
Lorraine Kember, Australia
- PL-3-15 Plight of Asbestos Victims in India
Gopal Krishna, Ban Asbsetos India and Toxics Link, India
Discussion . . .
November 20, 2004:
Session 4: Medical Aspects: Surveillance and Treatment of
Asbestos-related Diseases
4-A: Mesothelioma Pathogenesis and Immunology
Chairs: Yasunosuke Suzuki and Hiroshi Iguchi
- PL-4-01 Asbestos Fiber Analysis in the Lung and Mesothelial Tissues from
168 Cases of Human Malignant Mesothelioma
Yasunosuke Suzuki, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the U.S.A.
- PL-4-02 Mesothelioma in Japan Ð It's Pathological Characteristics
Kouki Inai, Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Biomedical
Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan Asbestos Hazards and
Mesothelioma Study Group, Japan
- PL-4-03 Clinicopathological Study on Malignant Pleural Mesotheliomas
Kenzo Hiroshima, Chiba University, Japan
- PL-4-04 PCR/SSCP Analyses of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor
(EGFR) Mutations in Malignant Mesothelioma
Kazuhiko Takabe, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tsuchiura
Kyodo Hospital, Japan
- PL-4-05 Cellular Characteristics of an Asbestos (Chrysotile-B) Resistant
Subline of HTLV-1-Immortalized Human Polyclonal T Cell Line
(MT-2)
Takemi Otsuki, Department of Hygiene, Kawasaki Medical School,
Japan
- PL-4-06 Exposure of Macrophages to Asbestos or Man-Made Mineral
Fibers Causes Oxidative Stress through a Change in the Levels of
S-nitrosothiol and Cellular Glutathione
Tamako Nishiike, Department of Hygiene, Hyogo College of Medicine,
Japan
- PL-4-07 Functional Alteration of Alveolar Macrophages Exposed to
Asbestos Fibers: the Production of TGF-¥, Apoptosis and the
Generation of Multinucleated Giant Cells
Yasumitsu Nishimura, Department of Hygiene, Hyogo College of Medicine,
Japan
Discussion . . .
4-B: Diagnosis and Treatment of Asbestos-Related Diseases
Chairs: Bruce Robinson and Takashi Nakano
- PL-4-08 Clinical Diagnosis of Asbestos-Related Diseases
Gunnar Hillerdal, Lung Department, Karolinska University Hospital,
Sweden
- PL-4-09 New Treatments and Early Detection of Mesothelioma Using Blood
Tests
Bruce Robinson, University Department Medicine, Perth, University of
Western Australia, Australia
- PL-4-10 Irinotecan-Based Chemothearpy for Malignant Pleural
Mesothelioma
Shigeru Miyata, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of
Medicine, Japan
- PL-4-11 Helsinki Criteria for Asbestos-Related Disease
Antti Tossavainen, Department of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology,
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), Finland
- PL-4-12 Diffuse Pleural Thickening related to Asbestos Exposure
Hirotaro Miura, Yokosuka Kyosai Hospital, Japan
- PL-4-13 Differentiating between Benign Pleuritis and Mesothelioma by
Radiograph using ILO2000
Narufumi Suganuma, Fukui University, Japan
Discussion . . .
Session 5: Compensation for Damages due to Asbestos
Chairs: Akira Morita and Satomi Ushijima
- PL-5-01 Compensation for Environmental and Domestic Exposure Cases
Bob Ruers, Former Dutch Senator, founding member of Dutch
Asbestos Committee and Solicitor, the Netherlands
- PL-5-02 Workers' Compensation in Japan
Sugio Furuya, Ban Asbestos Network Japan (BANJAN) and Japan
Occupational Safety and Health Resource Center (JOSHRC), Japan
- PL-5-03 Summary of Asbestos Litigation in Japan
Akira Morita, Lawyer, Kanagawa University Graduate Division,
School of Law, Japan
- PL-5-04 Nursery School Children's Asbestos Exposure Lawsuit
Satomi Ushijima, Lawyer, Satomi Ushijima Law Office, Japan
- PL-5-05 Asbestos Litigation in Australia: Past Trends and Future
Directions
Tim Hammond, Lawyer, Slater & Gordon Lawyers, Perth, Western
Australia, Australia
- PL-5-06 Asbestos Litigation in New South Wales
John O'Meally, Judge, Dust Disease Tribunal of New South Wales,
Australia
- PL-5-07 Philippine Case: Asbestosis Victims Left by the US Navy at Subic
Base
Alexander Lacson, Legal Counsel, Subic Asbestosis Victims
Association (SAVA), People's Task Force For Bases Clean-Up, the
Philippines
- PL-5-08 Asbestos and Money: a Local Perspective from South African
Asbestos Claimants
Linda Waldman, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex,
the U.K
- PL-5-09 Cape Plc: South African Mineworkers' Quest for Justice
Richard Meeran, Solicitor, Slater & Gordon Lawyers, Australia [author
unable to attend]
Discussion . . .
Session 6: Identification, Management and Removal of Existing Asbestos
Chairs: Shigeharu Nakachi and Anders Englund
- PL-6-01 Prevention of Asbestos Risks in the Construction Sector
Anders Englund, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine,
Ume University, Sweden
- PL-6-02 Defining a Minimum Global Standard for the Training and
Competency of Persons Involved in Management and Work with
Asbestos
Max Lopacki, National Asbestos Training & Accreditation Scheme
(NATAS), the U.K. [author unable to attend]
- PL-6-03 Asbestos Management Plan for the Vienna International Center
Heinz Kropiunik, aetas Ziviltechniker GmbH, Austria
- PL-6-04 A Case Study: Former Caseros Prison Ð First Asbestos Removal
Project in Argentina
Susana Muhlmann, Architect, Asbestos Removal Procedures and
Legal Aspects Technical Advisor, Government of Buenos Aires,
Argentina
- PL-6-05 Asbestos: New Strategies & Joint Working; the Experience of Local
Government in Scotland
Andy White, Councillor, Leader of the Council, West Dunbartonshire
Council, the U.K.
- PL-6-06 A New Standard for Repair and Maintenance of Installed
Asbestos-Cement Materials
Andy Oberta, Environmental Consultant, Environmental Consultancy,
the U.S.A.
- PL-6-07 Control of Asbestos in Maryland
Mardel Knight, Maryland Department of the Environment, the U.S.A.
- PL-6-08 Status of the Use and Environmental Release of Asbestos Analyzed
by Using PRTR Data in Japan
Shigeharu Nakachi, Environmental Monitoring Laboratory (EML), Toxic
Watch Network (T-Watch), Japan
Discussion . . .
November 21, 2004
Session 7: A World Free from Asbestos Risks: Future Strategies
Chairs: Yoshiomi Temmyo and Barry Castleman
- PL-7-01 From the "Controlled-Use" of Asbestos to the Ban on Main
Asbestos Products Ð The Process in JAPAN: June 2002 - Oct. 2004
Kazuko Ouchi, Citizens Group "Let's Think About Asbestos!Ó, Japan
- PL-7-02 The Situation in the European Union after the Total Ban on
Asbestos
Laurent Vogel, European Trades Union Confederation (ETUC),
Belgium
- PL-7-03 A Study of Asbestos Use in China
Arthur Frank, Public Health, Drexel University School of Public
Health, the U.S.A.
- PL-7-04 Possibility of Using Substitute Materials for Asbestos and
Non-Asbestos Fibro Cement Roofing Tiles to Reduce
Environmental Pollution and Increase Workers' Health Protection
in Vietnam
Dang Dinh Tri, National Institute for Labour Protection (NILP),
Vietnam
- PL-7-05 Asian Initiative to Stop the Spread of Asbestos-Related Diseases in
the Region, A Proposal
Ken Takahashi, Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute
of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and
Environmental Health (UOEH), Japan
- PL-7-06 Banning Asbestos in Asia, Campaigns and Strategies by the Asian
Network for the Rights of Occupational Accident Victims
(ANROAV)
Sanjiv Pandita, Occupational Safety and Health Officer of the Asia
Monitor Resource Center (AMRC) and Asian Network for the Rights of
Occupational Accident Victims (ANROAV), Hong Kong
- PL-7-07 The Trade Union Campaign for a World-Wide Ban
Fiona Murie, International Federation of Building and Wood Workers
(IFBWW), Switzerland
- PL-7-08 Towards an Asbestos Free World!
Laurie Kazan-Allen, International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS),
the U.K.
Discussion . . .
Closing Session
Chairs: Temmyo Yoshiomi and Barry Castleman
- Workshops' Reports
Sumiko Oshima, Hokusei-Gakuen University, Science Journalist,
Japan
- Joint Declaration from the International Building Trade Union
Federations, made at the Global Asbestos Congress
Presented by Fiona Murie, International Federation of Building and
Wood Workers (IFBWW), Switzerland
- Tokyo Declaration
Presented by Yoshiomi Temmyo, GAC2004 Organizing Committee
Working Party: Yoshiomi Temmyo, Domyung Paek, Tushar Kant
Joshi, Barry Castleman, Fernanda Giannasi, Fiona Murie, Laurent
Vogel and Laurie Kazan-Allen
- Award Conferment Ð Tajiri Muneaki Memorial Award
Presenter: Ryuta Saito
Award winner: Fernanda Giannasi
- Award Conferment Ð Selikoff Award
Presenter: Arthur Frank and Yasunosuke Suzuki
Award winner: Tushar Kant Joshi
- Award Conferment Ð Ray Sentes Award 2004
Presenter: Kyla Sentes
Award winner: GAC2004 Organizing Committee
- Award Conferment Ð Sebasti‹o Aparecido Alves da Silva (Chor‹o)
Memorial Award
Presenter: Fernanda Giannasi
Award winner: Sugio Furuya
- Closing Remarks
Yoshiomi Temmyo Yoshiomi Temmyo, GAC2004 Organizing Committee
Workshops
November 19, 2004
Workshop A: Asian Network: Scope and Action
Chairs: Sugio Furuya and Tushar Kant Joshi
- WS-A-01 OHSEI, the Asian Workers' Occupational Health, Safety and
Environment Institute, and Asbestos
Jesper Christensen, Asian Workers Occupational Health, Safety and
Environment Institute (OHSEI), Thailand [author unable to attend]
- WS-A-02 Role of Trade Unions in the Campaign for Prohibition of Asbestos
Madhukar Pandhe, Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), India
- WS-A-03 Asbestos Issues in Hong Kong
Kan Hong Chan, Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident
Victims (ARIAV), Hong Kong
- WS-A-04 Asbestos: Current Situation in Taiwan
Ho Kuang-Wan, Taiwan Association for Victims of Occupational
Injuries (TAVOI), Taiwan
Discussion . . .
Workshop B: Asbestos and Construction
Chairs: Naoki Toyama and Anders Englund
- WS-B-01 Asbestos Related Findings among Construction Workers and
Educational Effects on Prevention
Toshio Hirano, Kameido-Himawari Clinic, Japan
- WS-B-02 Check of Medical Receipts for Detection of Pneumoconiosis and
Asbestos-Related Diseases at the Tokyo Construction Health
Insurance Society
Kyoichi Yamada, Tokyo Construction Health Insurance Society, Japan
- WS-B-03 The Activities on Pneumoconiosis and Asbestos Measures by the
Tokyo Federation of the National Federation of Construction
Workers' Unions
Morimitsu Watanabe, The Tokyo Federation of National Federation of
Construction Workers' Unions (Zenkensoren-Tokyo-Toren), Japan
- WS-B-04 Efforts of Tokyo Doken for the Measures against Asbestos and
Pneumoconiosis
Kazuya Miyake, Tokyo Construction Workers' General Union (Tokyo
Doken), Japan
- WS-B-05 OSH Activities based on Participatory Approach at Construction
Worksites
Naoki Toyama, Tokyo Occupational Safety and Health Center, Japan
- WS-B-06 A Study on Asbestos Exposure, Health Effects and Causes of
Deaths among Construction Workers
Eiji Shibata, Aichi Medical University, Japan
- WS-B-07 Surface of Asbestos-Cement (AC) Roof Sheets and Assessment of
Risk of Asbestos Release
Jerzy Dyczek, Technology Building Materials Department, Krakow
Technical University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland
- WS-B-08 Tracing the White Enemy: A Brief Guide to Recognizing Installed
Asbestos in Buildings
Susana Muhlmann, Architect, Asbestos Removal Procedures and
Legal Aspects Technical Advisor, Government of Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Discussion . . .
November 20, 2004
Workshop C: Trade Union Initiative
A Panel of Representatives of Japanese Trade Unions
Chairs: Shigeki Yamaguchi and Hajime Miyamoto
- WS-C-01 Efforts of Local Workers' Unions to Address Asbestos Issues
Hiroo Morita, All Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Union
(JICHIRO)
- WS-C-02 Prevention of Asbestos Exposure of Construction Workers and
Workers Compensation
Masaaki Sato, National Federation of Construction Workers' Unions
(ZENKENSOREN)
- WS-C-03 Asbestos Issues that highlight Labor Union's Social Responsibilities
Kinya Mizuguchi, All Japan Shipbuilding and Engineering Union
(ZENZOSEN)
- WS-C-04 Prevention of Further Asbestos Exposure during Water Pipe Work
and Survey on Health Effects of Asbestos Exposure among Active
and Retired Employees
Hiroshi Watanabe, Japan Water Supply Workers' Union (ZENSUIDO)
- WS-C-05 Efforts to Establish a System to Compensate Asbestos Victims
Satohiro Konya, All Japan Garrison Forces Labor Union
(ZENTYURO)
- WS-C-06 Prefectural High Schools' Asbestos Issues
Yasunari Fujimoto, Japan Teachers' Union (JTU)
Discussion . . .
Workshop D: Asbestos Litigation in Japan
Chairs: Takeshi Furukawai and Barry Castleman
- WS-D-01 Reparation Claims against Johns Manville Corporation
Naoya Endo, Lawyer, Toin Yokohama University, Japan
- WS-D-02 U.S. Naval Base Workers' Legal Struggle for Pneumoconiosis
Damages
Takeshi Furukawa, Lawyer, Takeshi Furukawa Law Office, Japan
- WS-D-03 Asbestos-Related Pneumoconiosis Lawsuits by Shipyard Workers
in Yokosuka
Kazuzo Nomura, Kanagawa Sogo Law Office, Lawyer, Japan
- WS-D-04 Close PlaintiffsÐLawyers Collaboration in a Lawsuit
Tetsuro Ota, Chairman of the primary plaintiff party for the
Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Shipbuilding Pneumoconiosis Lawsuit, Japan
- WS-D-05 The First Malignant Mesothelioma Case in Power Plant Worker in
Japan
Akio Shiraishi, Ehime Occupational Safety and Health Center, Japan
- WS-D-06 Domestic Exposure Case of Cement Pipe Worker's Son in Saitama
Hiroko Murakami, Japan Eternit Pipe Co. Branch, General Workers'
Union, Tokyo, National Trade Union Council , Japan
- WS-D-07 Case Study: Death of a Hotel Boiler Maintenance Man from
Mesothelioma
Ryo Matsuda, Lawyer, Kodera-Matsuda Law Office, Japan
Discussion . . .
Workshop E: Epidemiology and Public Health
Chairs: Gunnar Hillerdal and Kouki Inai
- WS-E-01 The Hazards of Using Scrap Asbestos from Ship-Breaking
Operations and the Effect of Environmental Exposure to Asbestos
on Women's Health in Sari Kili, NWFP, Pakistan
Noor Jehan, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of
Peshawar, Pakistan
- WS-E-02 Implications of the Excessive Asbestos Related Disease Burden
among Retrenched South African Miners exposed to Chrysotile
Asbestos
Sophia Kisting, Occupational and Environmental Health Research
Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape
Town, South Africa [author unable to attend]
- WS-E-03 Mortality Experience in an Historical Cohort of Chrysotile
Asbestos Textile Workers
Carlo Mamo, Epidemiology Unit, Piedmont Region, Grugliasco, Turin,
Italy
- WS-E-04 Asbestos as an Environmental Hazard Ð The Example of the
Szczucin Community
Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska, Nofer Institute of Occupational
Medicine, Poland
- WS-E-05 Why is the Lung Cancer Mortality among Ironworkers High?
Hitoshi Kubota, National Institute of Industrial Health, Japan
- WS-E-06 Time Trend of Asbestos Concentration in the Lung of Lung Cancer
Patients in the Japanese General Population
Yuichi Ishikawa, Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute, Japanese
Foundation for Cancer Research, Japan
- WS-E-07 Is Chrysotile Asbestos Safe and Healthy for Developing World?
Zulmiar Yanri, Department of Manpower and Transmigration,
Republic of Indonesia
- WS-E-08 The Study Project for Health Hazards Evaluation in
Asbestos-Processing Industries in Thailand
Wisanti Laohaudomchok, National Institute for the Improvement of
Working Conditions and Environment (NICE), Thailand
- WS-E-09 Countermeasures for Asbestos at Ironworks
Hiroshi Udo, Department of Human Science, Hiroshima Bunkyo
Women's University, Japan
- WS-E-10 Current Status in the Use of Asbestos and Health Effects in China
Tao Li, Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese
Center for Disease Prevention and Control, China
Discussion . . .
- WS-E-11 Establishment of an Integrated Health Surveillance System of
Workers for the Areas that Use Asbestos in Brazil
Hermano Castro, Institutional Project: CESTEH/ENSP/FIOCRUZ
(Oswaldo Cruz Foundation), Brazil [author unable to attend]
- WS-E-12 Survey on the Mortality from Malignant Tumors of Female
Asbestos Spinning Workers
Zhang Xing, Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Hangzhou,
P.R..China [author unable to attend]
- WS-E-13 Are the Asbestos Substitutes Hazardous as well?
Reza Gholamnia, Uromia of Medical Science University, Iran [author
unable to attend]
- WS-E-14 The Lombardy Mesothelioma Registry (Northern Italy): Results of
Three Years of Surveillance
Carolina Mensi, Department of Occupational Health Ð University of
Milano, Italy [author unable to attend]
- WS-E-15 Use of Exposure Information and Nordic Incidence Data to Predict
the Expected Decline in the Mesothelioma Incidence
Sverre Langard, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Centre for
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Norway [author unable to
attend]
Workshop F: Victims and Support Organizations
Chairs: Kazunori Uekusa and Kyla Sentes
- WS-F-01 Victims Helping Victims
John Flanagan, Merseyside Asbestos Victims Support Group,
Liverpool, the U.K.
- WS-F-02 The Psycho-Social Effects of Asbestos Disease on the Victim and
the Family
Michele Olivia Hax Fite, White Lung Association, the U.S.A.
- WS-F-03 The Year of Ban Asbestos Canada
Kyla Sentes, Ban Asbestos Canada (BAC), Canada
- WS-F-04 Medical vs. Medico Legal Diagnosis of Asbestos Disease in Western
Australia
Gregory Deleuil, Asbestos Diseases Society of Australia, Australia
[author unable to attend]
- WS-F-05 Struggle of Justice: Case Study of the Asbestos Victims in Gujarat,
India
Raghunath Manavar, Occupational Health and Safety Association,
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Mangabhai Patel, Asbestosis victim, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- WS-F-06 Activities of Victims and Supporting Organizations to tackle
Pneumoconiosis and Asbestos-Related Diseases in Yokosuka
Munehiro Yasumoto, Yokosuka Pneumoconiosis (Asbestos) Victims'
Group, Japan
- WS-F-07 Activities of Victims' Group in Nagasaki Area
Shigeji Tsukahara, Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Pneumoconiosis Patients
Association, Japan
- WS-F-08 The Brazilian Asbestos Mafia Counterattacks: the Last Battle
Fernanda Giannasi, Brazilian Association of Asbestos Victims
(ABREA), Brazil
Discussion . . .
November 20, 2004
Workshop G: Multinational Enterprises and Overseas Transfer
Chairs: Takehiko Murayama and Domyung Paek
- WS-G-01 Overseas Presence of Japanese Asbestos-Related Enterprises
Takehiko Murayama, Division of Multidisciplinary Studies, School of
Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
- WS-G-02 Global Phase-Out of Asbestos Products
Barry Castleman, Environmental Consultant, the U.S.A.
- WS-G-03 A Multinational Corporation against the Workers : Saint Gobain
Strategies in France and Brazil
Annie Thebaud-Mony, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche
Medicale (INSERM), France
- WS-G-04 The International Asbestos Cartel
Bob Ruers, Former Dutch Senator, founding member of Dutch
Asbestos Committee and Solicitor, the Netherlands
Discussion . . .
Workshop H: Asbestos and Shipyards
Chairs: Hirotaro Miura and Claudio Bianchi
- WS-H-01 Asbestos and Shipyards
Claudio Bianchi, Center for the Study of Environmental Cancer Ð
Italian League against Cancer, Italy
- WS-H-02 U.S. Shipyards: A History of Massive Asbestos Exposure and
Disease
James Fite, National Secretary, White Lung Association (WLA), the
U.S.A.
- WS-H-03 Problems Faced by Shipbuilding Communities
Andy White, Councillor, Leader of the Council, West Dunbartonshire
Council, the U.K.
- WS-H-04 Mesothelioma of the Shipyard Workers in the Miura Peninsula
Naohiko Inase, Yokosuka Kyosai Hospital, Japan
- WS-H-05 Findings of Chest X-rays and Asbestos-Related Diseases among
Workers of a Shipyard
Meiro Haruta, Yokosuka Chuo Clinic, Japan
- WS-H-06 Collaborative Actions to Obtain Justice for Victims in the
Yokosuka Area
Michitaka Hayashi, Secretary General, Pneumoconiosis and Asbestos
Victims' Relief Fund, Japan
ILO2000 Workshop
Workshop on Reading ILO2000 International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconiosis
Presented by Yukinori Kusaka, Fukui University, Japan
Visual Exhibits
November 19-21, 2004:
Poster Presentations
- PS-01 Contribution to the Prevention of Asbestos-Related Hazards
Ivancica Trosic, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational
Health, Croatia
- PS-02 4 Wives and A Solicitor
Mary Nicol, et al, Asbestos Awareness Wales, the U.K.
- PS-03 A Model of Compensation for Morbidity and Mortality Arising
from Occupational Exposure to Asbestos and Silica: Workers
Compensation (Dust Diseases) Act 1942-1967
Geoff Lansley, Workers Compensation Dust Diseases Board of New
South Wales, Australia
- PS-04 Review of NSW Dust Diseases Board Clients Compensated for
Asbestos Induced Lung Cancer: 1998-2003
Rebecca Hyland, Workers Compensation Dust Diseases Board of New
South Wales, Australia
- PS-05 Incidence of Mesothelioma in New South Wales (NSW) Australia
Anthony Johnson, Workers Compensation Dust Diseases Board of
New South Wales, Australia
- PS-06 Asbestos Occupational Exposure in Some Industries from Romania
Rodica Dumitru, et al,Occupational Health Department, Institute of
Public Health Bucharest, Romania [author unable to attend]
- PS-07 Supervision and Coordination of the Medical Examinations for the
Workers of Asbestos-Processing Plants in Poland: AMIANTUS
Project
Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska, et al, Ministry of Health, Poland
- PS-08 Mortality due to Malignant and Non-Malignant Respiratory
Diseases among Workers Compensated for Asbestosis
Neonila Szeszenia-Dabrowska, et al, Ministry of Health, Poland
- PS-09 Elimination of Asbestos and Asbestos-Containing Products Used in
Polish Government Program
Stanislawa Szalucha, Ministry of Economy, Labour and Social Policy,
Poland
- PS-10 Chest Radiography Study on Plumbers
Shigemitsu Takayama, et al., Kan-Kogyo Health Care Center Clinic,
Japan
- PS-11 Asbestos Pollution and Lessons Learned from the Great Hanshin
Earthquake
Shigeharu Nakachi, Environmental Monitoring Laboratory (EML),
Toxic Watch Network (T-Watch), Japan
- PS-12 Airborne Asbestos Concentration Measurements and Preventive
Measures against Asbestos Exposure at Construction Worksites
Naoki Toyama, et al,Tokyo Occupational Safety and Health Center,
Japan
- PS-13 Japan's Miracle Other ÒExperienceÓ: from the Minamata Tragedy
to the Creation of JOSHRC, the Birth of a New Spirit
Paul Jobin, INSERM, University of Paris 7, France
- PS-14 The Effect on Lung Cancer Risk of Having Asbestosis Beyond the
Dose Related Effect of Asbestos Alone
Alison Reid, School of Population Health, University of Western
Australia, Australia
- PS-15 Asbestos Exposure in the Ports and Pleural Mesothelioma
Claudio Bianchi, Center for the Study of Environmental Cancer Ð
Italian League against Cancer, Italy
- PS-16 Asbestos Exposure in Shipbreaking
Claudio Bianchi, Center for the Study of Environmental Cancer Ð
Italian League against Cancer, Italy
- PS-17 Towards an International Standard for Compensation: A Holistic
Approach to the Assessment of the Human Consequences of
Exposure to Asbestos
Lundy Braun, Africana Studies, Environmental Studies, and Pathology,
Brown University, the U.S.A.
- PS-18 Turning Anger into Action
Linda Reinstein, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO),
the U.S.A.
- PS-19 Current Status of Using Asbestos in the Roofing Sheet Factories of
Vietnam
Nguyen Ba Toai, Civil Engineering, Hanoi University, Vietnam
- PS-20 A New Standard for Repair and Maintenance of Installed
Asbestos-Cement Materials
Andy Oberta, Environmental Consultant, Environmental Consultancy,
the U.S.A.
- PS-21 Ban Asbestos Canada
Kyla Sentes, Ban Asbestos Canada (BAC), Canada
- PS-22 Asbestos and Cancer Swallow Egyptian Workers in Eleven
Companies for Asbestos Products
Rahma Mohammed Refaat, Lawyer, Center for Trade Unions and
Workers Services, Egypt
- PS-23 Asbestos Pictures from Pakistan and Thailand
Noor Jehan, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of
Peshawar, Pakistan
- PS-24 The Search for Justice
Corrinne Heaney, Justice for Asbestos Victims Northern Ireland, the
U.K.
Photo Exhibition
Asbestos or The Silent Time Bomb: Message from the Victims
Akira Imai, Photographer, Japan
Visual Art Competion
- Together for the Future Ð Visual Messages
Design Project
- Introduction of the GAC2004 Designers
Appendix
Additional Material
- Collected Abstracts
Abstracts from plenary and workshop presentations
- Collected Poster Presentation Abstracts
- Conference Photographs
A selection from hundreds taken during Congress proceedings by
photographer Akira Imai and others
- Conference Report
Laurie Kazan-Allen, International Ban Asbestos Secretariat, the U.K.
- Blood Tests, Vaccination and other Research Approaches for
Mesothelioma Patients
Bruce Robinson, University Department Medicine, Perth, University of
Western Australia, Australia
- The Situation of Abandoned Asbestos Mines in Brazil
Fernanda Giannasi, Brazilian Association of Asbestos Victims (ABREA),
Brazil
Congress Organization
- Organizing Committee
- Supporting Bodies and Sponsors