04.19.18
The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) issued new guidelines to help local government agencies in California voluntarily establish and implement a program to make salons healthier for nail care workers, who are exposed to toxic chemicals in some nail care products.
DTSC’s Healthy Nail Salon Recognition Program encourages a safer environment for workers, owners and customers. Workers are often exposed to toxic chemicals such as toluene, formaldehyde, and dibutyl phthalate. Exposure to these and other chemicals present in nail salon products is associated with higher risks of cancer and developmental and reproductive harm.
“DTSC is committed to the safety of California consumers and to the workers who provide nail care services,” DTSC Director Barbara A. Lee said. “We are proud to present statewide guidelines that help local governments and businesses promote safer work environments, safer products, and healthier communities.”
DTSC’s Safer Consumer Products Program has been working with stakeholders, consumers, and local jurisdictions for more than seven years to promote workplace safety that ensures nail salon workers and customers are not exposed to toxic chemicals. These guidelines fulfill the mandate outlined in AB 2125, signed into law in 2016.
Consumers can look for salons that display gold or silver certificates. Salons that qualify for silver status agree to comply with health and safety requirements for their workers, offer training, use safer products, follow safe work practices and, when providing acrylic nail services, install a local exhaust ventilation system. To acquire gold status, salons would also need to install a mechanical ventilation system. The guidelines recommend ergonomic and environmentally friendly practices for salons certified under the gold tier.
California has an estimated 48,000 nail salons. According to the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, consumers can choose from about 200 healthy nail salons in the five local jurisdictions that already offer a healthy nail salon program: Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, the city of Santa Monica, and the city and county of San Francisco, the first to offer a program.
More info:
http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/SCP/upload/AB2125-HNSR-Program-Guidelines.pdf
DTSC’s Healthy Nail Salon Recognition Program encourages a safer environment for workers, owners and customers. Workers are often exposed to toxic chemicals such as toluene, formaldehyde, and dibutyl phthalate. Exposure to these and other chemicals present in nail salon products is associated with higher risks of cancer and developmental and reproductive harm.
“DTSC is committed to the safety of California consumers and to the workers who provide nail care services,” DTSC Director Barbara A. Lee said. “We are proud to present statewide guidelines that help local governments and businesses promote safer work environments, safer products, and healthier communities.”
DTSC’s Safer Consumer Products Program has been working with stakeholders, consumers, and local jurisdictions for more than seven years to promote workplace safety that ensures nail salon workers and customers are not exposed to toxic chemicals. These guidelines fulfill the mandate outlined in AB 2125, signed into law in 2016.
Consumers can look for salons that display gold or silver certificates. Salons that qualify for silver status agree to comply with health and safety requirements for their workers, offer training, use safer products, follow safe work practices and, when providing acrylic nail services, install a local exhaust ventilation system. To acquire gold status, salons would also need to install a mechanical ventilation system. The guidelines recommend ergonomic and environmentally friendly practices for salons certified under the gold tier.
California has an estimated 48,000 nail salons. According to the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, consumers can choose from about 200 healthy nail salons in the five local jurisdictions that already offer a healthy nail salon program: Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, the city of Santa Monica, and the city and county of San Francisco, the first to offer a program.
More info:
http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/SCP/upload/AB2125-HNSR-Program-Guidelines.pdf