Trying ChemHAT On BlueGreen Alliance Webinar September 25, 2012

1. Trying ChemHATOn BlueGreen Alliance Webinar September 25, 2012

2. 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 ChemHAT’s Future Charlotte Brody How You Can Help and Questions and Answers

3. Anna Fendley • United Steelworkers Health, Safety & Environment Department

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.

5. Workers and Chemicals • How can we build a conversation among workers about the problems with chemicals and using safer chemicals? • Where do workers learn about chemicals and what resources do they use?

6. Don’t 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) Three Problems With MSDS

7. Ethylene Oxide

8. http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/chemicals.php?id=71

9. http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/hlthef/ethylene.html

10. Google: NTP ROC Ethylene Oxidehttp://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/eleventh/profiles/s085ehty.pdf

12. http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/hazmap_generic?tbl=TblAgents&id=21http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/hazmap_generic?tbl=TblAgents&id=21

16. 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?

19. 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/ • Pharos: Healthy Building Network http://pharosproject.net/ • Green Screen for Safer Chemicals: http://www.cleanproduction.org/Greenscreen.php • Other examples for presenting chemical data to consumers: • GoodGuide: www.goodguide.com • EWG’s Skin Deep Cosmetics Database: www.cosmeticsdatabase.org • Ecology Center, Ann Arbor MI, www.healthystuff.org

26. ChemHAT vs. GHS Icons

27. Michael Mignano • BlueGreen Alliance, Research Assistant

28. Training with ChemHAT

30. Ernest Pacheco • Communications Workers of America, District Energy/ • Environmental Programs Director • CWA District 9

32. Mark McDonald • United Steelworks Local 135, Tony Mazzocchi Center Worker-Trainer

33. Charlotte Brody • BlueGreen Alliance, Associate Director, Health Initiatives

34. W ChemHAT’s Future

41. Questions, comments, recommendations for other resources and any other advice?