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Nail Salon Owners & Workers to dialogue with BBC and TTG around
workplace issues and learn about green nail salon products
press_release_marin_nail_salon_community_forum- down load here
WHO: The
California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative will hold a community forum with
participation from over 100 Marin County, as well as Bay Area, nail salon
owners & workers. The Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (BBC) and Teens Turning Green (TTG) will also be present.
WHAT: A
community forum to address health & safety issues in the nail salon
workplace and discuss the BBC’s
new inspection, citation, and appeal process. The forum will include live
footspa disinfection training and participants will be able to test and learn
about green nail salon products with Teens for Safe Cosmetics. The forum will
include testimony from nail salon owners & workers and a demonstration from
BBC. Translation will be available
in English and Vietnamese.
WHEN: Sunday, July
19th, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Marin Health and Wellness Center
3240 Kerner Boulevard
Marin, CA 94901
WHY: To
inform the nail salon community about important information regarding health
and safety as well as safer alternative nail products. Based on growing concerns
that nail care products contain many toxic and carcinogenic
chemicals, this community forum will also highlight key health and safety
issues faced by the nail salon community.
The
California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative is a state-wide coalition
of public health and environmental advocates, nail salon workers
and owners, community-based groups, educational institutions, and allies in
government agencies.
The Collaborative’s mission is to advance a preventive
environmental health agenda to assure the health and safety of the nail and beauty
salon communities.
The Collaborative includes members from:
Alameda
County Public Health Nursing, Asian Advocacy Project of Community Action Marin,
Asian Americans for Civil Rights &
Equality, Asian
Communities for Reproductive Justice, Asian Health Services, Asian Law Caucus,
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, Asian Pacific American
Legal Center, Bay Area Nail Salon Owners & Workers, Breast Cancer Action,
Breast Cancer Fund, CA Department of Public Health, HESIS, Center for Environmental
Health, Environmental Finance Center Region 9, National Asian Pacific American
Women’s Forum CA Chapter, Northern California Cancer Center, Orange County
Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate,
Physicians for Social Responsibility L.A., United Food & Commercial Workers
Local 5, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Region 9, Women’s Voices of the Earth,
Worksafe, Teens Turning Green.
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