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Occupational Cancer Resources

As the Zero Occupational Cancer campaigns continues, more and more resources become available.

  • Occupational cancer/Zero Cancer: A union guide to prevention (2007) [pdf]. Produced by the International Metalworkers’ Federation, this publication 'kicked off' the campaign
  • Items in the Chemicals section of this website
  • kNOw Cancer in the Workplace - a forum held jointly by the ACTU and Cancer Council Australia in December 2009.  Presentations can be downloaded from the website.   The presentations include:
    • Scope of occupational cancer in Australia [pdf] - Professor Lin Fritschi, WA Institute for Medical Research
    • Building coalitions to tackle workplace cancer [pdf] - Larry Stoffman; Labour Environmental Alliance Society, Vancouver Canada (Keynote speaker)
    • Taking carcinogens out of the workplace: A win-win for workers and industry in Massachusetts  [pdf] - Pam Eliason; Toxic Use Reduction Program, Massachusetts USA (Keynote speaker)

  • Cancer Council Australia website on the environmental causes of cancer, including occupational exposures.
  • Papers from the international Occupational and Environmental Cancer Prevention conference, held in April in Stirling, Scotland, in May 2008 can be accessed free on the Stirling University conference website.  There are contributions from top international academic, safety agency, activist and trade union thinkers on the topic, covering issues ranging from the extent of the problem to solutions including toxics use reduction and grassroots campaigns. Papers of particular interest for Australia include:
    • Dr Dick Clapp: Occupational and Environmental Cancer. A global view of the statistics [pdf]
    • Dr Lin Fritschi and Dr Tim Driscoll: Estimating Occupational and Environmental Cancer Burdens in Australia  [pdf]
    • Laurie Kazan-Allen: Successful International Campaigns on Cancer Prevention – Asbestos [pdf]
    •  Fiona Murie: An International Trade Union Perspective on Occupational Cancer [pdf]
    • and more
  • From Canadian cancer and workplace health organisations , a free online course CCOHS work cancer recognition and prevention course.  The course covers recognition and prevention of occupational and environmental cancers and is designed for primary healthcare providers and anyone with an interest in recognising and preventing occupational and environmental cancer.
  • The World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research have made their most recent Expert Report: Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective available online. The website also features publications on Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention as well as related projects

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  • ZOCC activities

    Read more about Zero Occupational Cancer Campaign activities around the world....read more