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California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative Forum

Nail Salon Owners & Workers to dialogue with BBC and TTG around
workplace issues and learn about green nail salon products
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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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