Transcript of Beauty Just Got Healthier Healthy Nail Salon Project Laurie Foster laurie.foster@kingcounty.gov.
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- Beauty Just Got Healthier Healthy Nail Salon Project Laurie
Foster laurie.foster@kingcounty.gov
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- 2012
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- Healthy Nail Salon Project Collaborated with other programs
Workshops, at salons & schools Built relationship with product
vendors & regulators Visit nail salons with Vietnamese
interpreter Photo-based brochures (Vietnamese & English)
Samples of PPE and storage containers Voucher incentive program
Reward use of safer chemicals
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- Photo based brochures
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- Local exhaust ventilation required in Washington State nail
salons since July 2007 Ventilation at each table 1.Pulls chemicals
and dust away from technicians and clients 2.Collects dust in a
filter 3.Exhausts chemicals outside New salons and remodeled salons
Mechanical Ventilation: Washington Administrative Code: WAC
51-52-0403
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- Salons older than 2007 may use a ventilation machine 1.Pulls
chemicals and dust away from technicians and clients 2.Collects
dust in a filter 3.Collects chemicals in a filter
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- Certified Healthy Nail Salons
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- Voucher Program = $$ Reimburse 50% up to $500 Site visit
required $ Glasses, gloves & N95 masks $ Storage containers $
3-Free Nail polish $ Local exhaust ventilation 3-Free Polish = No
Formaldehyde, Toluene or dibutyl phthalate
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- What can you do in your state? Local ordinances to require
safer chemicals Adopt code to require local exhaust ventilation
Start a Healthy Nail Salon Recognition Program Work with salon
product vendors Dept. of Licensing Cosmetology Attend board
meetings to develop relationships Present about salons issues
Change administrative codes
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- Collaborate To join the Alliance:
http://www.cahealthynailsalons.org/what-we-do/movement-building/
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- Healthy Nail Salon Program Webpages Videos Vietnamese and
English Training slide shows Brochures Vietnamese and English
www.hazwastehelp.org/health/nail-salons.aspx
laurie.foster@kingcounty.govlaurie.foster@kingcounty.gov or (206)
263-1652