trying chemhat on bluegreen alliance webinar september 25, 2012
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- Trying ChemHAT On BlueGreen Alliance Webinar September 25, 2012
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- Agenda Welcome and Logistics of the Webinar Charlotte Brody, BlueGreen Alliance The History of ChemHAT Anna Fendley, United Steelworkers How does ChemHAT work? Ann Blake, Environmental & Public Health Consulting Training with ChemHAT Michael Mignano, BlueGreen Alliance Ernesto Pacheco, Communications Workers of America, District 9 Mark McDonald, United Steelworkers & Tony Mazzocchi Center Worker-Trainer ChemHATs Future Charlotte Brody How You Can Help and Questions and Answers
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- Anna Fendley United Steelworkers Health, Safety & Environment Department
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- 4 The BlueGreen Alliance is a national, strategic partnership between labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy.
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- Workers and Chemicals 1. How can we build a conversation among workers about the problems with chemicals and using safer chemicals ? 2. Where do workers learn about chemicals and what resources do they use?
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- Three Problems With MSDS Dont really answer our questions Between 30 and 100% of the studied products contained undeclared chemicals Of 150 MSDS sheets only 37% had accurate data on health effects of the listed chemicals Accuracy, Comprehensibility, and Use of MaterialSafety Data Sheets: A Review, Nicol, A.M. et al; AJIM, 51;861-876 (2008)
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- Ethylene Oxide
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- http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/ chemicals.php?id=71
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- http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/et hylene.html
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- Google: NTP ROC Ethylene Oxide http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/eleventh/profiles/s085 ehty.pdf
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- http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/cgi- bin/hazmap_generic?tbl=TblAgents&id=21
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- Your health and safety committee has decided to convince your company to switch from using a dangerous chemical to a safer alternative. What information would you need to help you get your employer switch to a safer chemical?
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- How did we build ChemHAT? Workers provided user requirements Simple, searchable, clear Impacts, common uses, exposure pathways Worst hazards; alternatives information Existing Tools and Resources for Hazard Data PLUM: UC Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry Chemical Hazards Database: http://plm.berkeley.edu/http://plm.berkeley.edu/ Pharos: Healthy Building Network http://pharosproject.net/http://pharosproject.net/ Green Screen for Safer Chemicals: http://www.cleanproduction.org/Greenscreen.php http://www.cleanproduction.org/Greenscreen.php Other examples for presenting chemical data to consumers: GoodGuide: www.goodguide.comwww.goodguide.com EWGs Skin Deep Cosmetics Database: www.cosmeticsdatabase.org www.cosmeticsdatabase.org Ecology Center, Ann Arbor MI, www.healthystuff.orgwww.healthystuff.org
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- ChemHAT vs. GHS Icons
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- Michael Mignano BlueGreen Alliance, Research Assistant
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- Training with ChemHAT
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- Ernest Pacheco Communications Workers of America, District Energy/ Environmental Programs Director CWA District 9
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- Mark McDonald United Steelworks Local 135, Tony Mazzocchi Center Worker-Trainer
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- Charlotte Brody BlueGreen Alliance, Associate Director, Health Initiatives
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- W ChemHATs Future
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- Questions, comments, recommendations for other resources and any other advice?