Presenting at Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference

December 29th, 2011

Abe Kruger is presenting Protecting Lives and Livelihood through Workforce Development: Greener Jobs through Improved Chemical Safety Best Practices at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs regional conference in Atlanta, GA. Multiple coalitions are working to protect workers and occupants by developing tools and best practices to address environmental challenges. This workshop seeks to highlight key green job training and workforce development resources and best practices that can be tailored across sectors and sites. This workshop will describe chemical safety best practices that the federal spray polyurethane foam (SPF) workgroup has developed working with governments, industry, academia, NGOs, and others to promote safer work practices for SPF energy efficiency projects to protect workers, bystanders and occupants, while building a more endurable green economy.

Moderator:
Danny Orlando, Regional Program Manager, ENERGY STAR, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 4

Presenters:
Lynn Wilder, Ph.D., Associate Director for Science, Division of Health Assessment and Consultation, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Abe Kruger, Founder, Kruger Sustainability Group
Kurt Riesenberg, Executive Director, Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance
Heather Palfrey, Environmental Health & Safety Manager, Center for Polyurethanes Industry, American Chemistry Council (Invited)