On February 21, 2019 @ 7:00 pm Jennifer Maclachlan will present the following - Talking Safety: Why Teen Workplace Safety Matters.  This is an important topic for today’s safety and health professions.  According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, workers less than 25 years of age are twice as likely to end up in a hospital emergency room than older workers, a young adult is injured on the job every 9 minutes in the United States, and in 2013 –three hundred and thirty-five young workers were killed on the job.  These are staggering statistics! 

 In 2015, NIOSH and AIHA developed a joint curriculum called Safety Matters, which was designed for AIHA members to bring to their own communities, as education and outreach, tools to help prevent teen workplace fatalities and/or workplace injuries. In 2017, a Teen Workplace Safety Task Force was developed under the AIHA Government Relations workgroup. This presentation will give an overview of the Safety Matters curriculum; teach the audience how to connect with local educators/legislators/media and how to interact with the curriculum. Each attendee will be given a flash drive with the Safety Matters curriculum on it.

As a co-owner and sales manager of PID Analyzers, LLC, Jennifer Maclachlan is responsible for managing relationships with distributors and key clients as well as the web-based marketing, social, and digital media initiatives, of which she was an early adopter. Maclachlan is the Chair of the American Chemical Society National Committee on Public Relations and Communications. She is a founder of the Cape Cod Science Café and STEM Journey, an award-winning K–12 annual public outreach, day-long event with collaborative efforts from the ACS Local Section (NESACS), the Cape & Islands Boy Scouts, Sandwich STEM Academy, and PID Analyzers, LLC. Maclachlan is the Chair of the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s National Task Force on Safety Matters and is currently piloting the Safety Matters training program for young workers in her local community of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The presentation will be held at Roberto’s located at 31 S. Main Street East Windsor 06088.  The cost is $25. Registration will be at 5:30 pm on February 21, 2019 and a cash bar will be available from 6:00 to 7:00 pm.  The presentation will start promptly at 7:00 pm.  We look forward to seeing you there.  The price includes dinner.

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