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- Teach workers about proper personal protection
- Help businesses switch to less-hazardous chemicals and install pollution prevention technology
- Help businesses come into compliance with health and safety regulations
- Connect shop owners with technical assistance resources, and
- Connect workers and customers with health resources.
Project Description
The Boston Public Health Commission’s Safe Nail Salons project goal is to protect workers and the public from exposure to hazardous chemicals and air pollution in nail salons. Safe Nail Salons will prevent or reduce disproportionate environmental and occupational health effects from the industry on workers—particularly Vietnamese women of childbearing age—and clients, mostly women of color living in low-income communities.
Program staff will
Long-term project outcomes will include improved health of the targeted population, reduced air pollution in Boston, improved indoor air quality in salons, increased numbers of individuals connected with health care resources, improved public health infrastructure through project sustainability and expansion, and a stronger relationship between the commission and Boston’s Vietnamese community.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, U.S.A
CDC Contact Center: 800-CDC-INFO • 888-232-6348 (TTY)
