5064.0: Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | ||||
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| In this session, five presenters will discuss the importance of bringing both occupational and environmental concerns to the table in tandem. Through sharing their work, they will examine the potential for integration of primary prevention strategies in the occupational and environmental health sciences. There is a strong link between hazards in the environment and hazards in the workplace. Environmental "activists" in this country have already forced a "paradigm shift" from control to prevention by prohibiting "risk shifting" from media to media. There is a need to address the development of a new "paradigm" in the workplace where prevention precedes control. Pollution prevention can be a source of preventive industrial hygiene, by calling for the reduction or elimination of hazardous chemicals or by modifying processes to eliminate sources of occupational injury and illness. These activities decrease pollution by avoiding its creation. It is a goal of this panel discussion to demonstrate that this key component of pollution prevention can provide the guidance required to help prevent injury and illness from occurring in the workplace as well. Participants, at the end of this session will realize that research and programs have been developed to promote the "integration concept" of uniting both occupational and environmental health issues at all stakeholder levels. They will take part in a unique group discussion on how to raise awareness among all public health professionals of the potential social benefits to be achieved by integrating pollution prevention and occupational health programs | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Janie Gordon, ScM | ||||
| Karla R. Armenti | ||||
| Introduction: Primary Prevention: The Integration Concept of Occupational and Environmental Health Rafael Moure-Eraso, PhD | ||||
| Pollution Prevention and Worker Toxic Exposures: A Method for Modeling Exposures Darius Sivin | ||||
| Primary Prevention for Occupational Health - How Pollution Prevention has affected Worker Safety and Health at four Printed Wire Board facilities in Massachusetts Karla R. Armenti | ||||
| What Occupational Health and Environmental Specialists Need to Know to Protect Workers and the Environment Matt Gillen | ||||
| Strategies to Reduce or Eliminate Glutaraldehyde from Hospitals Jamie Tessler, MPH, Margaret Quinn, ScD, CIH | ||||
| Worker Participation in Pollution Prevention Programs Provides Benefits to Occupational Health and Environmental Marian Flum, MS | ||||
| Discussion | ||||
| Sponsor: | Occupational Health and Safety | |||
| Cosponsors: | Environment; Labor Caucus; Socialist Caucus | |||