The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) will hold a national research workshop, Making Green Jobs Safe: Integrating worker health and safety into sustainability, on Dec. 14 – 16, 2009, in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the workshop is to stimulate and begin planning national research to help make worker health and safety an integral component of the new green economy.For more information about NIOSH’s Prevention through Design initiative and green jobs activities under the initiative, visit www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/PtD/greenjobs.html.
