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Lower Pioneer Valley Educational Collaborative Project Funded by the Toxics Use Reduction Institute & US Environmental Protection Agency. Sue Viens and Lynn Rose MA Division of Occupational Safety. Model Cosmetology Salon & Training Program. Goals of the Project.
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Lower Pioneer Valley Educational CollaborativeProject Funded by theToxics Use Reduction Institute& US Environmental Protection Agency Sue Viens and Lynn Rose MA Division of Occupational Safety Model CosmetologySalon & Training Program
Goals of the Project • Develop Model Training Salon. • Use Model Salon to train 3 audiences: • Vocational Students • Vocational Teachers (professional development) • Professional Cosmetologists • Develop recommendations to use Toxics Use Reduction as the first step in meeting the revised Chapter 74 safety requirements.
What is Toxics Use Reduction? • TUR is a procedure used to examine Cosmetology processes to determine opportunities for reduction or elimination of hazardous chemicals in products. • TUR examines Cosmetology Processes and asks: • Why is this chemical being used? • Is there another method that does not require the use of a chemical? • If the activity truly requires chemical use, is there a safer chemical alternative? • If no alternatives exist, is the chemical being used efficiently?
Safety Philosophy - Cosmetology in the Early Years:As a Teacher • Safety of the Students – was not about exposure prevention, it was about: • Not getting burned from equipment • Not getting cut from equipment • Slipping on spilled product • Professionalism in application of service – was not about exposure prevention: • Avoid spilling product to prevent messes • Gloves were used to avoid getting product on skin for aesthetic reasons
Safety Philosophy - Cosmetology Then and Now:As Technicians Were unaware of the risk factors of working with hazardous products: • Focus was on the outcome of the service: • Following manufacturers’ directions • Expertise of the stylist • Focus was on the safety of the customer: • By keeping the product off of customer clothes and their skin, and out of eyes
Philosophy of Industry Today:MA Board of Licensure (Cosmetology) • Testing for skill only, not for use of product: • They simulate the task by using a generic product! E.g., for testing on nail applications, they only have to apply a tip, not the acrylic. • Concern for sanitation and safety for customer only: • Only for technician not transmit germs to the customer. • Not for technicians’ exposure to products.
Health and Safety Paradigm Shift in the Industry Change in Attitude As Cosmetologists continued in the field, they began to realize that long-term exposure to hazardous products can result in health problems. • This was illustrated by the death of several prominent icons in the industry. • The products also caused problems that could not be masked, such as the odor from the acrylic nail products and the dust, which alerted technicians that they were receiving exposures.
H&S Paradigm Shift in Vocational Education • The Career and Technical Education requirements from DOE for student safety training has changed: • Change came under pressure from OSHA. • To prepare students to work in an OSHA regulated industry. • Revised Chapter 74 Regulations • Aligns the vocational requirements with the Academic Frameworks. • Provides a Safety Guide to enable Technical Areas to develop safety plans for the shop. • Requires the Frameworks to incorporate safety into each task.
Revised Chapter 74 RegulationsSafety Guide • A Health and Safety Plan - Procedures to prevent, prepare for and respond to hazardous incidents. • Health and Safety Inspection Checklists • Safety and Emergency Response Equipment and Supplies • Materials Safety Data Sheets Requires every Technical Area to have:
Revised Chapter 74 RegulationsFrameworks Collection of Competencies • Goal –establish a high standard of proficiency: • Raise technical education standards • Standardize academic component (universal for each technical area) • Methodology - Frameworks: • List tasks • Describes procedures
How will the LPVEC Project Work to IncorporateTURI Concepts into the Cosmetology Curriculum? • It will illustrate how to use TUR concepts as the 1st step in meeting the requirements of the revised Chapter 74 Regulations. (see how to - next slide) • It will promote the use of the TURI Curriculum, Health and Beauty Can Go Hand in Hand, as a tool to accomplish this.
TUR as the First Step in Developing a H&S Plan TUR reduces health and safety risks. Thus, it reduces the need to manage them! • It eliminates potential problems: • health exposures – skin absorption, inhalation, ingestion • environmental problems – spills, hazardous waste disposal, etc. • Thus, it reduces H&S management and need for H&S planning: • chemical storage and emergency response - equipment and supplies • exposure controls - ventilation • personal protective equipment – gloves, goggles, apron, masks A Class 3 Flammable Can be ignited under almost all ambient temperature conditions.
Example of TUR Integration into the Frameworks • Differentiate between permanent wave solutions and consider the different health risks of each. Explain how products affect client and technician as well as the hair. Some products have a lower pH and are less harsh to the hair, but are more toxic. Relaxers – Explain the types of hair relaxers, their different abilities to relax hair, and the different levels of risk they pose to the client and the technician:
Challenges – Why not safe and stylish?Health and Beauty can Go Hand in Hand Shifting Paradigm: From: • Skepticism – I am fine, nothing is going to happen to me. • The products must be okay since it is on the market. • This is not what the work is about. • To motivating Cosmetologists through developing their understanding: • Of the product chemical hazards • How to reduce those hazards through TUR and proper management
The Motivation • For What - To provide safe and stylish services without sacrificing health. • How - Through product research and technical assistance from distributors, suppliers, technicians, TURI, and the Healthy Cosmetology Committee. • Why - To enhance the professional services offered, not eliminate them.
Shifting Paradigm Requires: • Increased awareness through professional development. • Changes in work practices and products used. • Changes in salon design and management. • Development of TUR and H&S program. • Creation of industry demand for product reformulation.
The Cosmetology Program Will use the following Toxics Use Reduction strategies; • Selection of the least toxic products available. • Education of students in least toxic salon processes. • Promotion of safe work practices (use, storage and housekeeping of hazardous products) to prevent accidents. Blonding as an alternative to bleaching
The Program will use theARECHealth and Safety Model Anticipation: Preparing to deal with hazardous products in the salon. Recognition: Identifying the products involved and the dangers they present. Evaluation: Discovering how these products can affect health and harm the environment when used, stored, and disposed of. Control: Selecting methods and products to eliminate or reduce any danger. Anticipate Recognize Evaluate Control
Reducing Exposures - Hierarchy of Controls • Toxics Use Reduction (process or product substitution) 2) Engineering Controls: Ventilation 3) Work Practices/Chemical Management 4) Personnel Protective Equipment
Model Salon Design – Product Dispensary Separate Product Dispensary to maintain chemical stability: • Establishing appropriate environmental conditions (heat, ignition sources, water). • Separating out salon functions, e.g., separating the laundry facilities (ignition sources) from product dispensary. • Venting dispensary 100% directly to the outside.
Model Salon Design – Product Dispensary • Separating products into compatible cabinets: Flammables • e.g. solvents, nail finishes Oxidizers • e.g. hair peroxide Corrosives • base e.g. relaxers • acid e.g., primers
Model Salon - Ventilation • Using ventilated nail tables designed by the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety to prevent exposure to nail product vapors. • Ventilating the entire salon work area 100% directly to the outside. • Using product dispensing equipment to reduce vapors.
Model SalonSafety and Emergency Response Features • Designing salon layout to ensure safe transport of hazardous products and quick access to emergency response equipment and supplies. • Using state of the art emergency response equipment and supplies, located the appropriate distance from hazards. • Posting signs for safety and emergency response.