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10 years Anniversary of the PEROSH network CNAM Museum

National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts

12 May 2014

Introductory Speech Didier Baptiste, Perosh Chairman

CNAM Museum National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts

• A very unique French institution of long-standing

and deep scientific tradition.

• Founded in 1794 to “improve the national

industry and to demonstrate and teach the techniques useful for the industrial arts and for trade“

• It has become an educational institution
• ffering a wide range of engineering training

programme and degrees (evening lectures).

• The collection of inventions is operated by the

Musée des Arts et Métiers (1802) which is the

• ldest history of Science and Technics museum in

Europe.

• 1852: First research laboratory

The precursors of OSH

• F. Cail INRS

Egypt(2500 BC)

Description of a case of acute lumbago in a worker working on the construction of a pyramid State-employed physicians in charge of checking the state of health of workers and slaves

Plautus

(254 - 184 BC) Latin philosopher and comedic playwright Mentioned the postural deformities of stonemasons

Leonardo da Vinci

(1452 – 1519) Painter, engineer, physicist, hydraulic engineer, anatomist, physician…. Described the amplitude of joint movements, functional segments, displacements of the centre of gravity

German physician

Georgius Agricola

(1494 - 1555) Studied working hours and breaks 1st physician to become interested in the possible toxicity of extracted metals

De Re Metallica

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

(1608 - 1679) Mathematician, physician, astronomer… Mathematically evaluated the muscular forces transmitted by the skeletal levers

Considered as the father of biomechanics

Described movements of the body

Bernardino Ramazzini

(1633 - 1714) Italian professor of medicine

Father of

• ccupational

medicine De Morbis Artificum Diatriba (“Diseases of Workers”)

Highlighted the scale of occupational accidents

Goya, circa 1796

Edmé Régnier

(1751 - 1825) Mechanical engineer Invented the handheld dynamometer Experimental research on human force

(showed the difference between the two hands, and between men and women, and highlighted the effect of posture on exertion of force)

Louis René Villerme

(1782 - 1863) Physician and sociologist Worked on worker health and safety

• Drew a “picture of the physical and moral state of

factory workers

• Described the overworking of women and children,

and exposed the unfavourable working atmospheres

Wojciech JASTRZEBOWSKI

The word “ergonomics” (1857)

Engineer and naturalist

From the precursors of OSH...

….to the PEROSH actors and their colleagues

Founded in 2003 in Roma the network has expended over the past ten years. 12 member institutions from 11 members states Main objectives of the partnership:

• Strengthen cooperation on

OSH research and accelerate the generating of knowledge in key areas of OSH

• Disseminate and exchange on

OSH issues

Perosh – 10 years of research cooperation on OSH

Nanoparticules: Toxicity Characterisation Safety Culture and development

• f a zero

accident vision Ageing of the workforce Well - being Workplace protection factors for respiratory protective devices OSH evidence- Clearinghouse

• f Systematic

reviews Survey development and cross culture methodology

Ongoing activities of the PEROSH network

Ambiant intelligence technologies Foresight in OSH Physical work Occupational respiratory diseases

10 years anniversary - Time for reflection

• Any anniversary is a time to reflect on where we have been, and

where we are going. Perosh is very pleased to welcome 3 speakers today:

• Dr Emile Tompa, Senior Scientist, Institute for Work & Health,

Canada: Economic dimension of OSH

• Dr Stefana Broadbent, Coordinator Digital Anthropology

Programme, University College London, UK , Communication technologies: new challenges at work

• Dr Alexei Grinbaum, LARSIM laboratory, CEA-Saclay, France:

Nanotechnology challenges: ethical questions and implications for society

Thank you