Thursday, February 7, 2008
8:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m.
(Registration at 8:00 a.m.)

Northeast Utilities Conference Center
Berlin, CT

Sponsored by UConn Health Center's Occupational and Environmental Health Center with conference support from the Coalition for a Safe and Healthy CT, Boehringer Ingelheim, the ACS Green Chemistry Institute, and United Technologies

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Tentative Agenda:

8:00	Registration
8:30	Welcome: Tim Morse, Ph.D., UConn Health Center
8:45	Keynote: Ray Anderson, Founder & Chairman, Interface, Inc.
9:30	Break
9:40	Changing International Chemical Policies: Joel Tickner, ScD, MSc
10:20	Response Panel: Implications for CT Academic: Paul Anastas, Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering Industry: Anita Jain, Manager, Corporate. Environmental Safety and Engineering, Rogers Corporation Labor/environmental: Steve Schrag, Health and Safety representative, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Government: Anne Evans, District Director, US Dept. of Commerce
11:15	Workshops (choose 1) Green chemistry: John Warner, Ph.D. UMass-Lowell, and Paul Anastas, Ph.D., Yale University Control banding and the Globally Harmonized System: Anne Bracker, MPH, CIH, UConn Health Center REACH and international chemical regulations: Joel Tickner, Sc.D., UMass Lowell Green Screens- How are products and chemicals being evaluated and marketed as green? Mark Rossi, UMass Lowell
12:30	Lunch
1:00	Luncheon speaker- Gina McCarthy, Commissioner, CT Department of Environmental Protections
1:30	Sector breakout workshops: Discussion of success stories, resources, and issues affecting your business
3:00	Report back from small groups
3:15	Where do we go from here?- Eileen Storey, MD, MPH, UConn Health Center
4:00	Adjourn

• New international chemical policy such as the European Union's REACH and the United Nation's Globally Harmonized System will have major impacts on Connecticut businesses.
• New approaches are being developed that greatly help in the availability and choice of safer alternatives and new processes to affected chemicals.
  • Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
  • Control Banding for qualitative risk assessment and best practices
  • Websites and resources to more easily find safer alternatives that do the job as well or better. 

Why come to the conference?

1.  Hear about changing regulatory approaches and their implications for CT business.

2.   See business cases and examples of successful safer alternative implementations.

3.   Obtain tools and resources that improve your ability to respond to the new market environment and implement solutions.

Target Audiences:

• Businesses, particularly health, safety, and environmental managers
• Health and safety committee members and other workers and unions,
• State agency officials;
• Academics and scientists;
• Public health professionals;
• Legislators;
• Community and environmental group members.

Brochure for the February 7, 2008
Alternative Products Workshop
in Adobe PDF format

For More Information:

Contact Tim Morse, Associate Professor, UConn Health Center, tmorse@uchc.edu or 860-679-4720.

For more information on our speakers:

Ray Anderson, Founder, Interface Corp. http://www.interfacesustainability.com or http://www.interfaceinc.com/who/founder.html

Joel Tickner, ScD, MS, http://www.uml.edu/College/she/CHS/Faculty/Joel_A_Tickner.html

Paul Anastas, Ph.D. http://greenchemistry.yale.edu/about_the_center/director/

Gina McCarthy http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2690&Q=322408

John Warner, Ph.D. http://www.uml.edu/college/Engineering/plastics/Faculty/Warner.html

Joel Tickner, Sc.D. http://www.uml.edu/College/she/CHS/Faculty/Joel_A_Tickner.html

Anne Bracker, MPH, CIH http://www.oehc.uchc.edu/facstaff_Bracker.asp

Tim Morse, Ph.D., CPE http://www.oehc.uchc.edu/facstaff_morse.asp
 

Eileen Storey, MD, MPH http://www.oehc.uchc.edu/facstaff_Storey.asp