Contact dermatitis--the preventable disease.

Abstract

employers estimated at £20 million. Yet it is preventable with knowledge and training in the right prevention techniques. This excellent and informative conference aimed to arm employers with the tools to avoid these losses and to maximise their employees’ safety. The many years of experience of the speakers were backed up by the practical solutions offered by the exhibitors. Delegates were welcomed by Dr Jacques Tamin, a member of the Society’s Council with day-to-day responsibility for occupational health and safety (and writer of a regular column on the subject for the Journal) before the day’s proceedings were opened by Dr John Cooper, Senior Medical Adviser (UK), Unilever. He stressed that occupational health should evolve as not just