Number: 022/11/93
Title: IUPAC-UNESCO-UNIDO Safety Training Program: A Fellowship
Program for Safety and Environmental Protection in Chemical, Biotechnological
and Pharmaceutical Production
Coordinator(s): M.C.
Cesa
Remarks: Interaction with UNESCO and UNIDO; involvement with
IUPAC Company Associates throughout the developed world.
Objective:
The IUPAC-UNESCO-UNIDO Safety Training Program allows safety experts
from developing countries to learn about safety and environmental protective
measures by visiting and working in plants of IUPAC Company Associates
in the industrialized world. IUPAC, with the United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations
International Development Organization (UNIDO), have established and
maintained the Safety Training Program to promote interactions between
developed countries and the developing world to disseminate state-of-the-art
knowledge on safety and environmental protection in chemical production.
Each scientist or engineer accepted into the Safety Training Program
is assigned to an IUPAC Company Associate
in an industrialized country. The period of training is typically one
to three weeks. Accommodation, subsistence and travel expenses are provided
for all trainees.
Successful candidates are professional scientists and engineers who
are currently:
- Involved at a supervisory or managerial level in chemical companies,
government institutions or scientific institutions;
- Engaged in aspects of safety and environmental protection in chemical,
pharmaceutical, or biotechnological production or in the teaching
of these fields;
- Have the ability to influence safety practices in their places of
employment and elsewhere within their home country.
Progress:
The Safety Training Program was reactivated in 1999 with the support
of UNESCO and UNIDO. Dr Mark
C. Cesa (U.S.A) is the Coordinator of the program.
Five international Fellows have received training at IUPAC Company
Associate Host Companies in the U.S.A., Japan, and South Africa since
2000.
In April 2000, Ms. Esma Toprak (Bogazici University, Turkey)
visited BP Chemicals Inc.; a side visit was arranged to the Illinois
Institute of Technology. [more]
Prof. Dr. Ali El-Emam (Mansoura University, Egypt) was hosted
by Bristol-Myers Squibb in the U.S.A. in August 2000. [more]
Mr. Tersoo Charles Gwaza (Shell Petrochemical Development Co,
Nigeria) received training at Sasol Chemical Industries, South Africa,
in June 2002. [more]
Mr. Kelvin Khisa (UNIDO Kenya National Cleaner Production Centre)
visited Sankyo Co., Ltd production and research facilities in Japan
in August 2002. In addition, side trips were taken to Shimizu Corporation,
Tokyo Eco, the Hitachi Group, Fuji Film, Tokyo municipal government
agencies and project sites, and the Japanese National Institute of Industrial
Safety. [more]
Mr. Zhang GuoHong (Sinopec, China) received training at BP Chemicals
Inc. USA research facilities in Naperville, IL and production facilities
in Lima, OH. [more]
Read more about the experiences of these trainees:
> Chem. Int. March
2001
> Chem. Int. November
2003
> Fellowship Application
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