UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) acted as the sponsor for the All-Russian Research-to-Practice Conference on Health Risk Management. The conference is dedicated to managing healthcare risks for both metallurgical industry workers and people living near metallurgical sites and has attracted some international speakers as well, the plant’s press service reports.

The event will be held in Yekaterinburg on October 12-13, 2017. The event is coordinated by the Federal Supervision Agency for Customer Protection and Human Welfare.

Experts from Rospotrebnadzor (the consumer rights watchdog), the Hygiene and Epidemiology Center, and representatives of Sverdlovsk Region colleges and large industrial enterprises will be speaking at the forum.

The main goal is to ensure the locals’ environmental as well as sanitary and epidemiological safety. PNTZ experts and employees from the plant’s Environmental Protection & Industrial Sanitation Department and Industrial Safety Administration will present their reports.