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 to asbestos/seafarers are still exposed to asbestos because asbestos was widely used for shipbuilding, both, in a friable and compact form 11% of the ships still in circulation were built before the law that banned the use of asbestos (Law 257/92), therefore they are potentially dangerous the seafarers' working environment matches with their living environment maintenance, removal and scrapping of ships is continuously increasing, and exported to developing countries. The AMINAVI database, still in progress, deepens the knowledge 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 asbestosrelated pathologies of seafarers Material and Methods: The information is stored in a Relational Data Base Management System (RDBMS), which allows you to explore the data using the SQL query language. Results and Conclusions: With the aim to create a network between the bodies responsible for health and environmental protection, through the consultation of Aminavi, it is possible to reconstruct the career of, to date, 623 cases (621 men and 2 women) with asbestos-related diseases. Of these, 31.92% are Officers (Commander, Doctor, etc) and 68.08% are non-commissioned officers and Sailors (Mechanic, Electrician, Radio-telegraphist, etc, more exposed for their job duties). The main pathology is Mesothelioma 56.25%, then Neoplasia 8.81% and Lung Carcinoma 7.69%, 72.39% of the collected cases have died. The recognized diseases are 25.84%.