Centennial Declaration of the International Commission on Occupational Health, ICOH.

The Permanent Commission – International Association on Occupational Health, now named International Commission on Occupational Health, ICOH, was founded on 13 June 1906 in Milan by Austrian, French, Bavarian, Belgian, Canadian, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, Prussian, Swedish, Swiss and UK occupational health scientists and physicians. The aim of the Commission was to promote research on occupational diseases worldwide and disseminate the available knowledge on occupational health to the entire scientific community, to physicians, and practitioners, employers and workers. To achieve these goals it was further decided to regularly hold a Congress every three years. In June 2006, a century after the foundation of ICOH, the occupational health experts once more convene for the Centennial ICOH 2006 Congress in its birthplace, Milan, Italy.