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The National Healthy Nail and Beauty Alliance is a coalition co-convened by three organizations: California Healthy Nail Salons Collaborative, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, and Women's Voices for the Earth, Missoula, MT. Their mission is to connect activists and organizations dedicated to improving the safety and working conditions of the nail and beauty salon industry.

Mission

 * "The National Healthy Nail and Beauty Salon Alliance works to increase the health, safety, and rights of salon workers by reducing toxic chemical exposure through strategic movement building, policy advocacy, and media efforts nationwide. The goal is to promote and protect salon workers so that they may live healthy lives safe from work related health consequences"

Strategy
Movement Building
 * Building a national movement for nail and beauty salon health and safety. They build alliances with organizations, agencies, and individual salon workers. These alliances allow them to share resrouces and information to be better armed to collaborate with each other and support the regulatory advocacy, outreach, and research efforts. The alliance alos encourages salon workers to take on leadership positions and fully participate in the development and implementation of the work.

Federal Policy and Regulatory Reform
 * The alliance advocates for key elements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The alliance works to ensure elements protecting salon workers remain strong and prominent in the bill. The legislation is used to raise awareness about occupational exposures to further promote participation and regulatory reform.

Advancing a Research Agenda
 * The goals of research are to identify the key chemical hazards that need to be addressed, and use that data to advocate for further research. The ultimately goal remains to advance greater salon worker and health safety.

Media and Strategic Communication
 * The alliance seeks to inform the public, the salon workforce, advocates, and key stakeholders through use of media. These outlets include editorials, press releases, reports, and articles. The goal is to rpomote recognition of the problem through increasing the visibility of salon workers by sharing their experiences.

Industry Advocacy
 * Research is done on cosmetic and nail product manufacturers to better understand the sources of chemical exposure. The purpose is to reduce those sources of exposure.

Members
Organizational Members Individual Members Ally Organizations
 * Boat People SOS
 * CA Healthy Nail Salons Collaborative
 * National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
 * Women's Voices for the Earth, Missoula, MT
 * American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilites Environmental Health Initiative
 * American Fertility Association
 * Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum
 * Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
 * Commonweal - Health and Environmental Research
 * Department of Work Environment - University of Massachusetts
 * Environmental Coalition of South Seattle
 * Hair Color Concerns
 * John Hopkins University School of Nursing
 * Many Languages One Voice
 * National Council for Occupational Safety and Health
 * National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
 * National Institute for Reproductive Health
 * Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles
 * Teens Turning Green
 * The Oregon Collaborative for Healthy Nail Salons
 * West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.
 * Worksafe
 * Anne Black, Environmental and Public Health Consulting
 * Jennifer Arce, Hair Stylist
 * Dawn Marino, Hair Stylist
 * Connie Nguyen, nail salon worker and consultant
 * Courtney Tanner, Salon Purity
 * Boston Public Health Commission's Safe Nail Salon Project
 * Environmental Health Strategy Center
 * The Local Hazardous Waste Management Program, King County

Major Accomplishments

 * Convinced OPI, Inc., the leading supplier of nail salon products, to remove three hazardous chemicals from their nail polishes
 * Released the report "Framing a Research Agenda to Advance Worker Health and Safety in the Nail Salon and Cosmetology Community"
 * Released a report entitled, “Removing the Topcoat: Understanding Federal Oversight of Nail Salons.”
 * Published articles about worker exposure in venues such as the Women and Environments International Journal, Collective Voices, and blogs for the American Fertility Association and Feminist Majority.