NYCOSH 2012 Safety & Health Series - Labor/Community Workshop

PCBs IN SCHOOLS

Many NYC school buildings have light ballasts, caulks, and other building materials that contain potentially harmful PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). Exposure to PCBs at sufficient concentrations and over sufficient time can damage adult and child immune, reproductive, nervous, and endocrine systems and may cause cancer. Although manufacture and new use of PCBs were banned in 1978, PCB-containing and PCB-contaminated materials remain in many buildings, including as many as 770 NYC public schools.

► How should we assess risk?

► How can we best protect teachers, administrative staff, and students?

► What are proper safe work practices for maintenance staff & contractors?

► What are the implications for workers and occupants in other buildings that also contain PCBs?

Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM

United Federation of Teachers (UFT)

52 Broadway, Lower Manhattan

Panelists:

· Judith Enck, Administrator, EPA Region 2

· Sean Brennan, Director, Mason Tenders' District Council Training Fund

· Michelle Chapman, NYC public school parent activist

· Robert Herrick, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health

· Chris Proctor & Ed Olmsted, UFT Safety and Health Dept.

sponsored by:

NEW YORK COMMITTEE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH

► PLEASE REGISTER BY MAY 4 ◄

To register, please complete the form below and fax to NYCOSH (212-227-9854).

This event is made possible, in part, by a grant from the New York State Department of Labor, C014118.