Global Recognition Campaign for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Not just a personal preference, but a Vital Matter of Health

This brochure is written with your situation in mind.

It's understandable that you may feel puzzled, annoyed, hurt, intimidated,
or even vaguely insulted by a request to leave off the scented stuff when
you're going to be around a certain person or going to be in a certain space.

How are you supposed to understand this request when you've never had it explained to you before.

Here's your chance to understand--and to protect your own health at the same time.
 

NEWS FOR NURSES
(And Other Health Professionals)

NEW ONLINE COURSE FOR CE CREDIT FROM MNA:

 "Fragrance Free!
Creating a Safe Health Care Environment"


Course Description: Chemical fragrances may seem like a natural part of modern American life, but in fact, they are anything but natural. These petroleum-based products, many of which contain known carcinogens, are produced with virtually no regulation by the FDA, and their widespread use is turning the modern health care environment-and the rest of the world-into Chemical Soup. Fragrance Free! looks at the hidden costs of chemical fragrance use in the health care industry, including the growth of allergies and potentially debilitating conditions such as chemical sensitivity.

The course discusses how to recognize the beginnings of chemical sensitivity, while offering alternatives to fragranced produces and common sense steps to reduce chemical fragrances in the health care environment.

Introduction:
Though we seldom give them much thought, fragrances pervade our lives. We wear perfumes and colognes to make ourselves more appealing. We wash our clothes in scented detergents and household cleaning products are full of smell-pine and lemon, just to name two. But what goes into them? It turns out that most of these fragrances are synthetic chemicals, introduced into our environment with only minimal safety testing. Many of the ingredients of these chemical fragrances are known to have negative health effects. Respiratory and nervous system illnesses rise right along with the use of chemical fragrances.

TO ACCESS THE COURSE: To register go to and click on "REGISTER". The subscription code for members is mna001, non-Members is mna002, and students is mna003. Fill out all of the fields in the form and press submit.

This information is also listed on the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) website

For more information, contact:
Division of Health and Safety at 781-830-5723.

Addressing Important Nursing Issues :: Pollution Prevention
 

Canada Safety Council: Perfume in the Workplace

Chemical Sensitivities and Perfume

Faribault middle school bans perfumes, colognes from students

Fragrance-Free Environments and No -Fragrance Spaces--

Fragrance-Controlled Workplace -Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Fragrance Free and Low-Scent Products on Prince Edward Island

‘Fragrance free’ zone has Mass goers breathing easier

Halifax Regional School Board  Proposed Scent Policy

Health care without Harm - Fragrances

Health Risks of Perfume

Healthy Hospitals - Controlling Pests without Harmful Pesticides

Hospitals Make Me Sick!

Is a fragrance free workplace right for you?

Jefferson City Public Schools - Fragrance Free Policy

Perfumes Contaminate Our Classrooms

Recent hospital experiences - MARY JANE HOLT

ScENt fREE?wHat'S ThAT mEan? Well... let us explain

There's trouble in the air -Cities in North America are banning
artificial fragrances in public places as evidence mounts that they make people sick.

The Halifax Shambhala School - No Scents Policy

United States Access Board - Fragrance Free Policy

WORKPLACE POLICIES

Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics - Eczema treatment

Employees with Fragrance Sensitivity

Facilities and organizations that have policies or wordage related to limiting the use of scented products or to increase awareness of health concerns(2005 list)or (April 2002 List)

Fair Housing Act -MCS Disorder and Environmental Illness as Handicaps

Fragrance-free environments - Australia is only just waking up to this new health battle

FRAGRANCE FREE IS FASHIONABLE AND TOXIC FUMES FROM PERFUMES ARE NOT

HOSPITALISATION AND EMERGENCY SURGERY - from ASEHA-Qld

Hospital Protocol for MCS  - Mercy Medical Center

How to Be Fragrance Free

Ian Forsyth School - Health & Safety

Myths and Facts About Chemical Sensitivity

Nirvana Safe Haven

Peggy Munson's Testimony -Editor of “Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”

Perfumes - A health problem not to be sniffed at

Rosedale/Grandmont Baseball League of Detroit - Fragrance Free Policy

Scent of a Workplace -Fragrances are a major source of indoor air pollution

Scent Free Awareness Program- University of Calgary  Perhaps more Education Facilities should follow suit!

Scent-free parishes in vogue

Scent-Free Policy for the Workplace (from CCOHS)

Scent-Free Healthy Schools September 1998

Scents in the Workplace -Second Hand Reactions

WORK-SITE ACCOMMODATION IDEAS FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO EXPERIENCE LIMITATIONS DUE TO CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY OR ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS (EI)