International Commission on Occupational Health

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The International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), is an international non-governmental professional society, settled in Milan during the Expo 1906.

The ICOH boosts a membership of 2,000 professionals from 93 countries and is recognised by the United Nations as a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with close working relationships with ILO, WHO, UNEP and ISSA.

Those relations have received strong critique, notably on the issue of asbestos: "Part of the explanation for this bland acceptance of the asbestos cancer epidemic is that the WHO and the ILO have allowed organizations such as the International Commission on occupational Health (ICOH) and other asbestos industry consultants and experts to manipulate them and to distort the scientific evidence. The WHO and the ILO were lulled into inaction by conflicting scientific reports of the epidemic."[1]

[edit] Prominent (board)members

  • Robert Murray

[edit] See also

  • Asbestos Institute
  • International Fiber Safety Group

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ LaDou, Joseph (2004-03-01). "The Asbestos Cancer Epidemic". Environmental Health Perspectives 112 (3): 285-290. DOI:10.1289/ehp.6704. Retrieved on 2006-08-03.
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