Workshop Session III: Tuesday, May 4, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Concentration: Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety

Safe and healthy workplaces are fundamental to the sustainability of our economic and social systems. The need to create incentives for safety and health to be considered equally important to environmental sustainability by practitioners, and to ensure that green jobs, products and technologies are also safe for workers will be presented. The compelling activities resulting from the NIOSH “Making Green Jobs Safe” workshop, along with the motivators and barriers to achieving our goals for safe, green jobs. And the need for establishing partnerships among environmentalists, health and safety practitioners and labor to achieve sustainability goals will also be demonstrated.

Moderator:
Donna S. Heidel, MS, CIH, NIOSH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Through Design Program, Coordinator

Presenters:
Paul A. Schulte, PhD, NIOSH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Education and Information Division, Director; Nanotechnology Research Center, Manager
Walter Jones, Laborers’ Health and Safety Fund North America, Associate Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Division
Bill Walsh, Healthy Building Network, Founder and Executive Director