HSE's Biological Monitoring Team Lead, Kate Jones will be featured at the virtual Health and Wellbeing at Work Week next month, 15 to 19 March. This is the UK's largest virtual event dedicated to improving the health, wellbeing, safety, behaviour and culture of today's workforce. Kate will appear in the Emerging Risks and Worker Protection stream on Friday, 19 March speaking about Current Trends and Emerging Risks in Biological and Environmental Monitoring.
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Also coming up in September, The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) are hosting the 10th International Symposium on modern principles of air monitoring and biomonitoring in Bristol, UK. This symposium is the leading international forum at which recent progress in workplace, residential and environmental exposure assessment strategies and associated analytical air sampling and biomonitoring methodologies can be discussed.
HSE will have a significant presence at this conference and is also involved in the running of the event, with Kate Jones chairing the organising committee and Owen Butler leading the scientific committee.
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Workers can develop hypersensitive pneumonitis, a serious and irreversible respiratory illness, as a result of occupational exposure to welding fumes and metalworking fluid over a long period. Because of the risk of health to workers, HSE plans to inspect engineering premises from May to September 2021 focussing on these health hazards.
HSE offer both air and biological monitoring for welding fume exposures and the HSE website offers a wealth of information and resources. There is a free Welding fume and metalworking fluid webinar running on Tuesday, 9 March designed to improve your ability to manage the health hazards from welding fume and metalworking fluids.
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