The AMINAVI database: a tool for knowing the presence of asbestos in ships and cases of seafarers' pathologies

Nowadays for seafarers there is still exposure toasbestos/seafarers are still exposed to asbestos because asbestoswas widely used for shipbuilding, both, in a friable and compactform 11% of the ships still in circulation were built before the lawthat banned the use of asbestos (Law 257/92), therefore they arepotentially dangerous the seafarers' working environment matcheswith their living environment maintenance, removal and scrappingof ships is continuously increasing, and exported to developingcountries. The AMINAVI database, still in progress, deepens theknowledge about asbestos in ships from 1900 to today: it collects,catalogues and reports the information about each vessel (launch,radiation, reclamation activities) also through the cases of asbestosrelatedpathologies of seafarersMaterial and Methods: The information is stored in a RelationalData Base Management System (RDBMS), which allows you toexplore the data using the SQL query language.Results and Conclusions: With the aim to create a network betweenthe bodies responsible for health and environmental protection,through the consultation of Aminavi, it is possible to reconstructthe career of, to date, 623 cases (621 men and 2 women) withasbestos-related diseases. Of these, 31.92% are Officers (Commander,Doctor, etc) and 68.08% are non-commissioned officers andSailors (Mechanic, Electrician, Radio-telegraphist, etc, moreexposed for their job duties). The main pathology is Mesothelioma56.25%, then Neoplasia 8.81% and Lung Carcinoma 7.69%, 72.39% ofthe collected cases have died. The recognized diseases are 25.84%.