[From research to users: the Worksafe European Project and the IST-Gaslini Prevention and Safety Project].
OBJECTIVE
The Worksafe Project aims at increasing access to and use of the large amount of data related to the broad sector of health protection of workers and workplace safety recognising the key role of the communication and dissemination of the research results with particular reference to cancer.


METHODS
Four scientific institutes: National Institute for Research on Cancer, Genoa (IST); Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH), Helsinki; Karolinska Institutet (KI), Stockholm; International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, and two technological partners (Softeco Sismat, Genoa; Fundacion Robotiker, Bilbao).


RESULTS
The creation of the Worksafe portal, a web based infrastructure that allows knowledge sharing on top of a distributed digital data collection and provides web accessed services addressing a broad interested audience including biomedicine companies universities, research institutions, local and national public organisations and private users.
Bianchi
Stefano
S
Dipartimento epidemiologia e prevenzione, Istituto nazionale per la ricerca sul cancro, Genova.
Gilberti
Chiara
C
Maiorana
Lucia
L
Alloisio
Sandro
S
Viano
Gianni
G
Vecchio
Daniela
D
D018876:Environmental Illness / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005060:Europe; D005387:Finland; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D020407:Internet; D007558:Italy; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016272:Occupational Health; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D013030:Spain; D013548:Sweden