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Creating Safe and Healthy Spaces: Selecting Materials that Support Healing
Creating Safe and Healthy Spaces: Selecting Materials that Support Healing Summary:Mark Rossi, PhD, and Tom Lent Publisher: The Center for Health Design and Health Care Without Harm Published: September 2006 Pages: 29 Paper presented by The Center for Health Design and Health Care Without Harm at a conference sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Business Strategies for Transforming the Toxic Chemical Economy Every year hospitals consume huge volumes of materials. In 2004 alone, the healthcare sector consumed $23 billion worth of durable medical equipment and $32 billion worth of nondurable medical equipment, while investing another $86 billion in structures and medical equipment.1 This scale of consumption creates both concerns and opportunities. The concerns stem from how the plastics, metals, fibers, and minerals used in healthcare construction and medical devices affect our health. Materials matter, as Kenneth Geiser wrote in his book by the same title, because as “we mine, synthesize, process, distribute, use, and, finally dispose of materials, we generate worrisome threats to the sustainability of the ecological systems upon which we depend.”2 As one of the largest economic sectors in the United States, healthcare is a major contributor to the impacts of material consumption. The opportunities emerge from the position of healthcare — by mission, expertise, and scale of activities — to address material concerns in ways that not only reduce the footprint of their facilities but affect larger change across the medical product industry and even the entire construction industry. This paper outlines the relationship of the materials and products used in a modern healthcare facility to the chemicals to which our communities are exposed. It emphasizes the opportunities available to healthcare organizations to help society break from its dependence upon toxic materials and define the path to healthier, sustainable materials that benefit patients, communities, nature, and the organizational bottom line. The task is large, but a wide range of healthcare organizations have already outlined manageable steps — see ”Recommendations” — that can lead facilities to gain the benefits of the use of healthier, green materials. Contents: Cover Title Page Acknowledgements Table of Contents Executive Summary Healthy Business Strategies The Problem - Toxics Ignorance The solution - Healthy Business strategies Table 1: Company Innovation and chemical Policy Highlights Introduction Creating a Competitive Advantage Toxic Chemicals in the Economy Table 2: Example Health effects of Toxic chemicals Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic (PBT) Implications for Public Health What about the U.s. Regulatory system? Table 3: Health effects and sources of chemicals and Materials Targeted by case study companies Brands at Risk From Toxic to Green Chemistry - Taking Action Table 4: The Journey from Toxic to Green chemistry Table 5: Early stages of the Journey – Recommendations from case study companies Case Studies in Transforming the Toxic Chemical Economy Kaiser Permanente: Healthy Patients, Workers and Communities The Commitment The Process: Purchasing specifications and Partnerships The Decision: catalyze Innovation Continuous Improvement: creating comprehensive environmental Purchasing and chemicals Policy Programs Interface Fabric: Benign by Design What is Terratex PLA? The Interface Fabric Dye and chemistry Protocol Third Time Is a charm Closing the Material Loop and saving energy H&M: Fashion Chemistry H&M chemicals Restriction Policy Know Thy chemistry Overcoming Barriers Purging PVc What Motivates H&M? Herman Miller: Healthy Chairs Environmental Design Roots Designed for the environment-The Mirra chair Redefining the Terrain of competition Avalon Natural Products: Consciousness in Cosmetics Europe Bans Use of Toxic chemicals in cosmetics Avalon’s Health screens for cosmetic Ingredients Consciousness in Cosmetics Meeting the challenge of eliminating Parabens Table 6: Avalon natural Products: Percent change in sales (February 2005 – February 2006) Helping to Grow the Market for organic cosmetics Business Benefit of Avalon’s strategy for Reducing Toxic Risks Dell, Inc.: Mainstreaming the Precautionary Principle Listening from outside/Listening from Within An open source solution Lessons for the Journey Table 7: Summary of company Motivation and Benefits Table 8: Case study company strategies on the Journey to Green chemistry Recommendations for Healthy Business Strategies Chemicals Develop a corporate chemical policy Know what’s in your products. use only green chemicals Target high hazardous chemicals Publicly support government reforms commit to product re-design. Materials & Products Take responsibility for products Be socially responsible. Partnerships Engage supply chain. Work collaboratively with environmental advocates and other non-profit organizations. Be socially responsible References Back Cover password: R20090729 MD5: 65A25B525CB1602767BFB5AAF9534F77 Please select one mirror to download
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