The 20th World Congress On Safety And Health At The Work Opens In Frankfurt On August 23

The World Congress 2014 is one of the most important events offering a platform for information exchange to experts in safety and health, representatives of companies and employees, decision-makers from government and public authorities, the social partners, and anyone active in the area of occupational safety and health.

The weeklong Congress has as its Theme Sharing a Vision for Sustainable Prevention. The Global Forum for Prevention focuses on “Prevention Culture – Prevention Strategies – Vision Zero; Challenges in Occupational Health Diversity in the World of Work”.

The national host of the World Congress 2014 is the “Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung (DGUV)” - The German Social Accident Insurance. The hosts have invited as Participant, Ghanaian Ms. Esenam Emily Akumah of Adenta, Accra. Esenam did her M.Sc. Degree in Occupational Safety & Health Management in UniBrunel, London, with her internship at AKER SOLUTIONS in Norway Offshore. She also did her Post-Graduate course on Occupational Safety and Health in the Workplace at the University of Turin, Italy.

Co-hosts are The International Labour Organization (ILO); The International Social Security Association.

Attending as well from Ghana is Dr. Julius Fobil, a Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, Legon and will feature in “Occupational poisoning among e-waste workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Setting up a basic occupational laboratory service”.

Dr Fobil is a product of University of Bielefeld School of Public Health's Department of Public Health Medicine and a Research Associate to the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group at the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine in Hamburg.

Other West African participants, and their themes are:

Côte D'Ivoire: Study of occupational reintegration of accident victims.

1) Sangah Barthelemy Wognin
2) Irel Narcisse Aka
3) Aime_Francois Tchicaya
4) Christelle Monsia
5) Linda Melissa Affoue Nguessan
6) Jean-Sylvain Bonny
Togo: Trade unions and occupational health and safety in Africa.

1. Yahya Msangi
Nigeria: Importance of bio-security practices in control of avian influenza in poultry industries.

1) Olajumoke Joseph – Medical Virologist
2) Prof Sunday Omilabu, UNILAG Teaching Hospital (LUTH)

3) Remi Orelolu,
10 reputable Companies are sponsoring the Frankfurt event and the event's premium sponsor is Siemens AG (Munich) which has specially launched a website in order to attract global attention to its activities in the field of safety and health:

www.siemens.com/nachhaltigkeit/healthy-at-siemens