Implications for health and safety training in a green economy (How the Recovery Act impacts worker safety and health)

In the current climate, green job training, including teaching principles such as green chemistry, is important because of the toxicity present in our workplaces, communities, and homes; toxicity that we rarely consider or notice until it begins to make us sick. Green job training is a public health imperative if we want to avoid what could potentially become an epidemic of cancer.

What does the new green economy mean for workers? Are green jobs safe jobs? What is being done to protect workers in a new green economy? Find out the answers to these questions and others in a session on the Implications for Health and Safety Training in a Green Economy.

In October 2008 the National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) Worker Education and Training Program (WETP) sponsored a workshop in October 2008 on the Implications for Health and Safety Training in a Green Economy. The workshop covered issues such as green chemistry, green remediation and green construction.