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Program
Day 1 (17th October)
09h30 – Opening session
10h00 – Jochen Mueller
Studies on fire fighter exposure in Australia
Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia
10h30 – Jeff Burgess
The Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study: Biomonitoring Approach and Findings
University of Arizona, United States of America
11h00 – Coffee break
11h30 – Maria Helena Andersen
Markers of exposure and health effects during firefighting: Insights from Danish studies
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark
12h00 – Alberto Caban-Martínez
Collaborating with Firefighters in Cancer Control and Prevention through education, research and service: Evidence from the National Firefighter Cancer Initiative
University of Miami, United States of America
12h30 – Sandra Nilsson
Occupational Exposure of Firefighters to Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia
13h00 – Lunch
14h30 – João Mendes de Araújo
ALERT-PFAS: Transnational strategy for the detection and prevention of water pollution by PFAS
REQUIMTE/LAQV – NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
14h50 – Luís Lemos/Artur Noronha
Physical fitness: a determining factor in the professional activity and in the health of sapper firefighters
Regimento Sapadores bombeiros, Porto, Portugal
15h20 – Joana Teixeira
Project 4FirHealth – Occupational exposure of firefighters during fire combat: assessment of pollutants’ levels and risks for respiratory and urinary system
REQUIMTE/LAQV – School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
15h40 – Filipa Teixeira
Project 4FirHealth – Firefighting occupational exposure and early effects on the health of operational forces: evidence from in vitro assays
REQUIMTE/LAQV – School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
16h00 – Ana Sofia Amorim
Project 4FirHealth – Firefighters’ occupational exposure and health: Contribution from biomonitoring assays
REQUIMTE/LAQV – School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
16h20 – Ana Bela Barros
The BioFirEx Project: Exposure and health impacts of forest fire emissions on Portuguese wildland firefighters
REQUIMTE/LAQV – School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
17h00 – Welcome Reception
Day 2 (18th October)
09h30 – Anna Stec
Firefighter Exposure to Fire Smoke and Occupational Health Hazards
University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
10h00 – Renaud Persoons
Biomonitoring of fire instructors’ exposure to PAHs during controlled fire and mitigation strategies
Grenoble teaching Hospital, Grenoble University, France
10h30 – Tommy Bækgaard Kjær
Occupational cancer in the fire service
IARC classification, reasons and prevention, science and practical reality. New technology
Danish Firefighters Cancer Society, Denmark
11h00 – Coffee break
11h30 – Soraia Neves
Enhancing firefighter safety: innovations in thermal protective clothing with phase change materials
Transport Phenomena Research Center (CEFT), Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal.
12h00 – Helena Alves
Real-Time Wearable Technologies for Team Health and Stress Assessment
Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering – Microsystems and Nanotechnologies (INESC MN), Lisbon, Portugal
12h30 – Pedro Almeida
Project Gum4Fires – Development and application of a chewing gum with the capacity to withhold pollutants present in fire-emissions
REQUIMTE/LAQV – School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
13h00 – Lunch
14h30 – Jorge Barroso Dias
President of the Portuguese Society of Occupational Medicine and Clinical Director of Occupational Health at Lisbon Municipality
Portuguese Society of Occupational Medicine; Occupational Health Service of the Lisbon City Council, Portugal
15h00 – Humberto Morgado
Decontamination – practical case of application in the Fire Station of the Municipality of Tomar and occurrences
Coordinator of Municipal Civil Protection, Fire Chief, Civil Protection Division, Municipality of Tomar, Portugal
15h30 – Tiago Ribeiro
Presentation of Good Practice Guide – Decontamination after fire
Firefighter Mayday Program
16h00 – Round Table
16h30 – Closing session
Funding: The international conference was supported by project 4FirHealth (PCIF/SSO/0090/2019), funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, through national funds. http://doi.org/10.54499/PCIF/SSO/0090/2019
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