OSHA's New System for Managing Chemicals to Achieve Safer, Healthier Workplaces ….. and Beyond
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OSHA's New System for Managing Chemicals to Achieve Safer, Healthier Workplaces ….. and Beyond Charlotte Brody, Associate Director for Health InitiativesBlueGreen Alliance
Substitution and Elimination
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Why chemicals matter: We’re getting sicker and chemicals are part of the reason why?
Substitution and Elimination
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Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Children
More children are getting cancer but fewer children are dying from cancer
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Asthma up 100% Impaired fertility up 40%
Breast Cancer up 40% Autism diagnosis up
1000%
30% more babies are being born too early
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The dose makes the poison
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Why do we think this has anything to do with chemicals? Because wildlife is getting sick too
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DBCP: InfertilityIn the California workers who produced it and the Nicaraguan farmworkers who used it
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Agent Orange: What We Learned From an Uncontrolled Experiment on American Soldiers and the People of
Southeast Asia
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Hodgkin’s Disease, non Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Prostate Cancer, Chronic B-cell Leukemia, Respiratory Cancers, Type 2 Diabetes, Ischemic Heart Disease, Parkinson’s Disease
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Breast Cancer and DDT
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Why Timing Can Matter More than Dose
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Biomonitoring: Measuring Chemicals in People
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CDC reports that Bisphenol A (BPA)is in more than 90% of the American people
and Perchlorate is in all of us
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From the CDC’s 2009 Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
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I didn’t know that the dose is only one part of the problem: there are also low dose effects, mixtures, synergies,
timing, sensitivities and long delays between exposure and visible
effects including multigenerational
effects.
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ChemHATHow it Got Here: How do workers find chemical information?
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Ethylene Oxide
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http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/hazmap_generic?tbl=TblAgents&id=21
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http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/chemicals.php?id=71
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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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ChemHAT vs. GHS Icons
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The Economic Benefits of a Green Chemical Industry: Renewing Manufacturing Jobs While Protecting Health and the Environment=
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The U.S. Chemical Industry Today
The chemical industry is an important part of U.S. manufacturing, contributing $273 billion to GDP ($390 billion if we include the plastics sector).
But employment in the chemical industry has been declining sharply over the past few decades, despite the fact that the value of production has been growing 4% per year.
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(5) Non-Pharmaceutical Chemical Employment, Actual and Projected Jobs (1992, 2010, and 2030).
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(17) Research and development expenditures as a percent of total output, 1989-2009.
pharmaceuticalsnon-pharmaceutical chemicals
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Greener Chemistry & Regulatory Reform Supports Competitiveness
Lowering handling, storage, and disposal costs
Ensuring access to global markets
Reducing waste by using inputs more efficiently
Moving away from fossil fuel based inputs
Meeting consumer demands for safer products
Protecting shareholder value
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Decaffeinate coffee with benzene
In 1970s benzene replaced with dichloromethane
Decaffeinate coffeewith water or carbon dioxide
Manufacture IV bags and tubes using polyvinyl choride and DEHP
Switch production to lighter, stronger polypropylene plastic that do not contain chemicals of concern and does not need a moisture overwrap
Produce glass for electronics using arsenic to remove air bubbles
Maintain liquid glass at higher temperature for longer periods
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Charlotte Brody, Associate Director for Health InitiativesBlueGreen Alliance, [email protected] www.chemhat.org
Thank you.