Commit to CLEAN Town Hall March 11, 2022 - 11:32AM 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.780 Susan Marchese Lewis: hi Jesse. 2 00:00:01.949 --> 00:00:15.599 Susan Marchese Lewis: I am the Managing Director of marketing and communications here and a chain, I am just going to share a few little details housekeeping and then introduce our presenters. 3 00:00:16.529 --> 00:00:29.280 Susan Marchese Lewis: So during the town hall today the Q amp a feature is available for you to know any questions you may have for the presenters the chat feature is not accessible to our attendees. 4 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:41.580 Susan Marchese Lewis: The meeting is being recorded so it's possible for others who couldn't attend today to watch it afterwards, which we will be making available on our website fondling. 5 00:00:43.020 --> 00:00:47.400 Susan Marchese Lewis: Next week, and now i'm going to introduce our two presenters. 6 00:00:48.570 --> 00:01:05.220 Susan Marchese Lewis: My pleasure, of course, is to introduce Larry sloan many of you already know Larry, if not all of you, of course, he is the CEO of Ai chain, and he has been in this leadership role, since October of 2016. 7 00:01:05.880 --> 00:01:16.500 Susan Marchese Lewis: Prior to that he had served as CEO for seven years at soccer mom, which is a trade association representing the interests of US specialty chemical industry. 8 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:31.020 Susan Marchese Lewis: Our other presenter is hen Martinez, who is the chief science Officer of integrated bio science and built environment consortium, also known as I bet. 9 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:46.770 Susan Marchese Lewis: Pen is an environmental engineer and a ch with experience in leading and conducting large scale research and managing programs and occupational health, safety and emergency response. 10 00:01:47.910 --> 00:01:54.330 Susan Marchese Lewis: He was with CDC for 33 years as a hazard hazardous. 11 00:01:54.570 --> 00:01:59.280 Susan Marchese Lewis: agent exposure characterization and mitigation control practices. 12 00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:05.310 Susan Marchese Lewis: It is my pleasure to introduce them and turn the meeting over to them. 13 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:07.320 Susan Marchese Lewis: Very. 14 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:12.360 Lawrence Sloan: Good okay Thank you so welcome can it's an honor to be here so first slide up. 15 00:02:13.590 --> 00:02:18.150 Lawrence Sloan: Let me start out by just saying that the partnership between ha and I Beck. 16 00:02:18.750 --> 00:02:32.460 Lawrence Sloan: came about when we were awarded the partnership grant from the CDC back in February of last year, and that was really thanks to our friends at niosh for all the work that we did with the back to work safely campaign. 17 00:02:33.570 --> 00:02:45.570 Lawrence Sloan: The genesis of this grant was based on that work and back to work safely starting back in April of 2020 and throughout the summer of that year we released over two dozen. 18 00:02:46.110 --> 00:02:53.430 Lawrence Sloan: Back to work safely guidance documents that featured great common sense practices on how to safely reopen businesses. 19 00:02:53.850 --> 00:03:03.990 Lawrence Sloan: With a focus on small businesses that lacks oh ehs expertise and knowledge, so these these guidance documents were really designed to speak to the end user. 20 00:03:04.530 --> 00:03:15.720 Lawrence Sloan: Who did not have the in house resources to address the pandemic and when we got the grant we had been familiar with, I back as a result of their series of clean summit that began in 2020. 21 00:03:16.140 --> 00:03:25.830 Lawrence Sloan: And we found an excellent partner with deep subject matter expertise in the control strategies to help protect people, which is our most important asset. 22 00:03:26.340 --> 00:03:39.540 Lawrence Sloan: From the hazards of airborne transmissible viruses, such as sorry as coda to and we've been working with live act now, for over a year and we cannot be happier with our collaboration next slide please. 23 00:03:43.290 --> 00:03:52.770 Lawrence Sloan: So our brand award is based on four distinct and different projects, the nomenclature these projects really was based on our original application. 24 00:03:53.160 --> 00:04:04.980 Lawrence Sloan: And we just decided to keep the nomenclature for convenience purposes so project a first one on the side on the slide on the Left was something was actually under way when we receive the grant. 25 00:04:05.670 --> 00:04:15.900 Lawrence Sloan: And that was the revision of the 2006 publication, the role of the agent a pandemic, which, through the leadership of a very committed group of volunteers. 26 00:04:16.230 --> 00:04:35.310 Lawrence Sloan: was updated and released last fall this document now numbers, I believe, close to 100 pages it's much more comprehensive in scope and it really extends the guidance beyond specifically code it it's really more about pandemics and an infectious disease incidences in the future. 27 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:47.790 Lawrence Sloan: project be is a series of video snippets which helps companies first assess the risk profile through a series of questions and ken's going to get into this a little more shortly. 28 00:04:48.270 --> 00:05:02.040 Lawrence Sloan: And then, depending upon their risk profile if they're lower risk profile they're directed to a set of videos on face coverings or facemasks if they're higher risk than there being directed to a series of videos on P, p. 29 00:05:03.780 --> 00:05:12.840 Lawrence Sloan: Projects see is a series of video snippets and other knowledge products that are really rooted in our back to work safely guidance i'll get into that on the next slide. 30 00:05:13.440 --> 00:05:30.630 Lawrence Sloan: And then finally project be was a clean summit webcast that we aired back at the end of January, and this webcast featured multiple panels of experts at discuss the needs and solutions to address the pandemic so next slide please. 31 00:05:31.950 --> 00:05:39.240 Lawrence Sloan: So this slide shows the target audiences for each project, so you can see project a we updated the publication. 32 00:05:39.750 --> 00:05:48.150 Lawrence Sloan: And then we created collateral or supplemental assets that are aimed at three specific market segments healthcare facilities. 33 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:57.000 Lawrence Sloan: Long term care facilities and general small business facilities and the purpose of these knowledge products is to explain to these different audiences. 34 00:05:57.420 --> 00:06:06.090 Lawrence Sloan: what's the value what's the role of the ehs professional and then ultimately how do I get in touch with one, so this routes people to our online consultants listing. 35 00:06:07.470 --> 00:06:17.910 Lawrence Sloan: Project F is again designed for two specific broad industry sectors, health care and long term care and then small businesses in the general public. 36 00:06:18.450 --> 00:06:22.530 Lawrence Sloan: Now one thing to keep in mind is that when one goes through the risk analysis. 37 00:06:23.100 --> 00:06:29.820 Lawrence Sloan: Just because you are in a healthcare facility does not necessarily mean that everybody is necessarily in a high risk environment. 38 00:06:30.150 --> 00:06:36.090 Lawrence Sloan: You can have somebody who's working say in the accounting department or isolated in in a warehouse somewhere. 39 00:06:36.810 --> 00:06:53.910 Lawrence Sloan: Which who does not come in contact with folks that you know are considered high risk or that have coven 19 so you really want to identify and analyze the risk profile for different populations of workers within your facility it's not a one size fits all for a specific facility. 40 00:06:55.590 --> 00:07:03.000 Lawrence Sloan: Project see the back to work safely derivatives what we did, is there 27 back to work safety documents that we've been updating over the last couple of years. 41 00:07:03.390 --> 00:07:12.990 Lawrence Sloan: And what we did with those materials is, we decided to create three primary knowledge products, one is the bucket for the service industry sectors so, for example. 42 00:07:13.380 --> 00:07:23.280 Lawrence Sloan: gyms hair and nail salons dry cleaners all of that falls into the service industry sector and next bucket is the manufacturing sector, which includes manufacturing and warehousing. 43 00:07:23.970 --> 00:07:27.540 Lawrence Sloan: And then, finally, the last bucket is the office based industry sector. 44 00:07:27.900 --> 00:07:37.830 Lawrence Sloan: And that would be obviously things like General office buildings and the like, and so the guidance is derived along those three lines and the knowledge products are laid out accordingly. 45 00:07:38.700 --> 00:07:43.230 Lawrence Sloan: And then finally project be, which was the needs assessment Summit that was airing. 46 00:07:43.710 --> 00:07:55.500 Lawrence Sloan: aired at the end of January we ended up having a series of panels The first was on first responders second was on various educational facilities, ranging from daycare to institutes of higher education. 47 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:05.070 Lawrence Sloan: The third was on the gig economy, and then the fourth was on baltimore workers in agriculture and construction segments, and each of these panels featured experts. 48 00:08:05.520 --> 00:08:20.820 Lawrence Sloan: That basically we're providing you know, an update on what are the practical solutions that were deployed during the early days of the pandemic what worked what didn't work and what are the steps forward, so it was really a very practical hands on series of panels. 49 00:08:22.230 --> 00:08:23.610 Lawrence Sloan: All right next slide please. 50 00:08:26.490 --> 00:08:38.280 Lawrence Sloan: So these free knowledge products were really the drivers for the committed care initiative, which was what we're going to get into now, and this is a very simplistic approach that's again tailored to the general public. 51 00:08:38.700 --> 00:08:42.990 Lawrence Sloan: One of the key differentiating factors on all the deliverables that have been produced on to this grant. 52 00:08:43.470 --> 00:08:52.260 Lawrence Sloan: Is that together they're suitable and they're valuable for all audiences, regardless of how much knowledge or expertise they've got in the age or vhs profession. 53 00:08:52.800 --> 00:09:02.460 Lawrence Sloan: Now some of the products developed, such as the coven 19 exposure assessment tool and the role of the agent a pandemic guidance document. 54 00:09:02.850 --> 00:09:13.500 Lawrence Sloan: Those two products are geared more towards the knowledgeable audience the age professional so on the slide in the left hand icon and then the icon in the Center bottom. 55 00:09:13.980 --> 00:09:20.790 Lawrence Sloan: Which is a little bit of an eye chart that's the online exposure assessment tool, they are not posted to commit to care. 56 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:30.090 Lawrence Sloan: They are on the iga website we'll get into that in a little bit, but all the other products, the videos checklist the other interactive web based tools. 57 00:09:30.570 --> 00:09:39.600 Lawrence Sloan: they're all available on commit to care and they're all tailored toward small business owners larger organizations and workers across all industries. 58 00:09:41.160 --> 00:09:53.730 Lawrence Sloan: The webcast that we broadcast in January that needs assessment summit has allowed us to share contents of committed care with a much broader and diverse audience across many of the industries that were included in this grant project. 59 00:09:56.220 --> 00:09:57.240 Lawrence Sloan: Next slide please. 60 00:09:58.950 --> 00:10:06.810 Lawrence Sloan: And so the dissemination now all of these deliverables that have been produced is going to span a period of 12 months so basically all of this year. 61 00:10:07.290 --> 00:10:15.600 Lawrence Sloan: And we're very proud that we've already solicited the endorsement of a variety of professional partner organizations there's a slide later on that shows the various icons. 62 00:10:15.930 --> 00:10:23.940 Lawrence Sloan: But i'll tell you now they include organizations like workplace health without borders, the national safety Council absa and the Australian. 63 00:10:24.270 --> 00:10:29.940 Lawrence Sloan: Institute for occupational hygiene so we're very pleased and honored to have corner and their support and endorsement. 64 00:10:30.570 --> 00:10:40.980 Lawrence Sloan: The goals of our communications plan are basically to debunk the myths that surround the pandemic set the science straight and really explain it in very simplistic terms. 65 00:10:41.430 --> 00:10:47.070 Lawrence Sloan: provide a variety of tools for businesses and employees that can afford to hire an IT professional. 66 00:10:47.580 --> 00:10:57.480 Lawrence Sloan: And then produce additional trainings that go beyond coded want to make sure that the materials are more evergreen and that they're more reflective of general pandemics not specific to code it. 67 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:06.240 Lawrence Sloan: And how do we do this we're reaching out to you, the Members to leverage your networks we're going out to influencers that can help us spread the word. 68 00:11:06.510 --> 00:11:16.800 Lawrence Sloan: and also through earned and paid media opportunities so it's a multi pronged approach to promote this website and the various knowledge products that are contained within it. 69 00:11:18.300 --> 00:11:22.830 Lawrence Sloan: And with that i'm going to turn it over to Ken to continue the next set of slides, thank you very much. 70 00:11:24.660 --> 00:11:25.320 Kenneth Martinez: Thank you Larry. 71 00:11:25.890 --> 00:11:30.150 Kenneth Martinez: it's a pleasure to be here today, so as part of the CDC grant one of our. 72 00:11:30.690 --> 00:11:45.480 Kenneth Martinez: Tasks was to disseminate the knowledge products, the information that both he and I bet created together and that's not an easy thing to do so, the NS was or the needs assessment so much was a way for us to understand. 73 00:11:46.350 --> 00:11:58.260 Kenneth Martinez: These very specific audiences and how to reach out to them, but then the brainstorm happened and the pledge was born the committed care pledge and care standing for. 74 00:11:59.370 --> 00:12:08.910 Kenneth Martinez: commit awareness, responsibility and equity, this was our way to level the playing field with regard to understanding. 75 00:12:09.540 --> 00:12:19.560 Kenneth Martinez: About covert 19th specifically so by what i'm saying, as far as level the playing field if we address the issues, the risk factors on a very high level. 76 00:12:20.040 --> 00:12:28.200 Kenneth Martinez: right that is digestible that by not just technically competent but, by the way, when I mean technically me into science. 77 00:12:28.560 --> 00:12:40.110 Kenneth Martinez: folks like us industrial hygienists and medical officer as well, but by everyone, the public employers, employees, if we level the playing field we increase the communication that can occur. 78 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:47.040 Kenneth Martinez: Across all of these different folks interacting in the build space, so that if an employee walks into their. 79 00:12:47.490 --> 00:12:55.830 Kenneth Martinez: restaurant, for example, a server and sees that the employer has placed a portable air cleaner in there, they can say ah, I understand what's happening here. 80 00:12:56.460 --> 00:13:06.720 Kenneth Martinez: So when I talk about simplification this slide describes what we call the four DS, these are the risk both factors and risk mitigation strategies. 81 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:15.840 Kenneth Martinez: The content that was created was developed out of CDC guidance, it was developed out of the American industrial hygiene association guys both. 82 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:23.490 Kenneth Martinez: Back to work safely and the I should a pandemic, and also my experience with CDC over 33 years in dealing with with. 83 00:13:24.090 --> 00:13:31.830 Kenneth Martinez: Responses to infectious diseases, so when I first wrote up the content is a nine page document i'm a scientist about this is great stuff. 84 00:13:32.160 --> 00:13:40.140 Kenneth Martinez: My marketing team laughed at me and said, can we can't send this out there, so we all got together and we boiled it down to what we call the four DS dilution. 85 00:13:40.530 --> 00:13:47.910 Kenneth Martinez: density distance and duration now as you as occupational environmental safety and health professionals, you understand all these concepts next slide please. 86 00:13:50.220 --> 00:14:00.480 Kenneth Martinez: So let's break this down a little bit if we talk about the risk factors right, just as you evaluate a chemical exposure in some business some manufacturing opportunity right. 87 00:14:00.870 --> 00:14:07.230 Kenneth Martinez: You have a certain exposure there right and it's about that density that concentration. 88 00:14:07.620 --> 00:14:15.240 Kenneth Martinez: Well, the same thing applies for Kovac 19 So if you have a group of people, two 310 people in a meeting room. 89 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:25.350 Kenneth Martinez: That are all gathered around you don't know who's been vaccinated who is not you hope that most everybody has been vaccinated, but we know in this country alone that we're only at about. 90 00:14:25.650 --> 00:14:32.580 Kenneth Martinez: Five talking about 65% complete vaccination rate so there's 35% of the population that is not vaccinating. 91 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:38.370 Kenneth Martinez: You don't know if somebody is sick and it's just asymptomatic even if they're wearing a mass. 92 00:14:38.610 --> 00:14:47.310 Kenneth Martinez: Which is even harder to tell now because CDC guide says if you're healthy and you're vaccinated you know over need to wear a mess So how do you know if someone is carrying. 93 00:14:47.820 --> 00:15:00.210 Kenneth Martinez: coven 19 you don't so you base your decision on how many people are in a row right so that's that concentration because of 123 people are actively sick and feeling. 94 00:15:00.570 --> 00:15:08.130 Kenneth Martinez: violated particles that concentration increases so let's go to duration, how long and you're in that room, just as if you were all. 95 00:15:08.880 --> 00:15:16.980 Kenneth Martinez: Over a purchase or stripping tank the longer you stay hovered over that even if you have engineering controls in place. 96 00:15:17.610 --> 00:15:29.070 Kenneth Martinez: The longer or the radio risk does have inhaling whatever chemical that is math level ketone, for example, and then that the higher your risk of being impacted by that. 97 00:15:29.400 --> 00:15:37.920 Kenneth Martinez: let's go to risk mitigation factors again very simple you've heard this all address the first one, which is distance the farther you are away these. 98 00:15:38.400 --> 00:15:52.530 Kenneth Martinez: airborne virus particles well, while concentrated near the person who's infected as it begins to diffuse through a room they spread out that concentration effectively gets less dense. 99 00:15:52.860 --> 00:16:03.810 Kenneth Martinez: and hopefully we'll get below that infectious dose so distances effect of the father, you are away ballistic concentration is However, having said that, we know from the published literature. 100 00:16:03.990 --> 00:16:13.740 Kenneth Martinez: that there are many super spreader events that a person in a room 30 feet away on the outside of room can still be exposed infected and contract coven 19. 101 00:16:13.950 --> 00:16:27.090 Kenneth Martinez: So we're not saying distances, the cure all but it is a factor to help reduce the risk, the other one is a simple one delish right if we can get that concentration of viral particles below and infectious those. 102 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:37.620 Kenneth Martinez: Then we're less likely to become infected, how do we do that well improve the ventilation that can happen through increasing the amount of outdoor air that can happen through. 103 00:16:37.890 --> 00:16:42.090 Kenneth Martinez: Increasing the filtration efficiency, but we also need to consider with dilution. 104 00:16:42.930 --> 00:16:56.760 Kenneth Martinez: The pathways of areas that move in a building, for example, if we're talking about long term care facilities, we want that patient room to be under positive pressure with cleaner air, because we want to ensure that whoever's in the hallway they could be sick. 105 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:06.690 Kenneth Martinez: does not generate an aerosol that can then be transferred into that patient, so we need to think about pressure relationships and arrogance and ability as well next slide please. 106 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:14.970 Kenneth Martinez: So Larry kind of we did go through this already so it's Community awareness, responsibility and equity again. 107 00:17:15.420 --> 00:17:26.370 Kenneth Martinez: it's very simple it's a grassroots efforts and there is no charge to participate in this effort and I vic is so proud and happy to be a partner with hga. 108 00:17:26.670 --> 00:17:34.500 Kenneth Martinez: and pushing this out there and as Larry said, we have a lot of partners that have committed to work with us and move this forward and it's growing every week. 109 00:17:35.730 --> 00:17:47.880 Kenneth Martinez: Again it's about debunking the myths about the spread of cold night coven 19 virus make the complexities of the science easier and you'll see this through some of the videos that we've created we've taken this this very. 110 00:17:48.300 --> 00:17:59.310 Kenneth Martinez: scientifically based content and and and evolved into two or three minute videos that communicate the key issues and we want to encourage businesses to close them to care. 111 00:17:59.970 --> 00:18:13.230 Kenneth Martinez: Again, no costs we just want them to commit to a dinner to show their employers their customers or clients, that they are aware of these issues and doing their best to address the next slide please. 112 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.640 Kenneth Martinez: So this is the commit to care plan next slide. 113 00:18:19.350 --> 00:18:30.510 Kenneth Martinez: So what is it about this is our sequential lessons to help any organization now you as industrial hygienist you'd appreciate this because it's about determining relative risk. 114 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:41.790 Kenneth Martinez: What our industrial hygiene is but risk assessments, we anticipate you identify we evaluate and control, and then we take the cycle around again we are the ultimate risk assessment profession. 115 00:18:42.210 --> 00:18:56.670 Kenneth Martinez: But not everybody understands how to do risk assessment, so we are communicating on a very simple level about risk, and so, if you take the first video you'll actually find a link to a very simplified risk assessment tool to give people who are. 116 00:18:57.180 --> 00:19:12.690 Kenneth Martinez: Looking going through that video and understanding of what this of what a risk assessment is and it's based on the success of a model that is actually addressed in the eyes of the pandemic it's basically a hazard bending control bending concept. 117 00:19:14.250 --> 00:19:26.040 Kenneth Martinez: Do focused on infectious disease so it's a very simple in terms of that you either in a high risk or a low risk if you're a low risk, you know, maybe you just were a mess. 118 00:19:26.970 --> 00:19:39.060 Kenneth Martinez: But if you're in a higher risk, such as a healthcare worker who's actually seeing patients, then you would wear in 95 and as Larry said earlier, not everybody in the healthcare industry is going to be an iris category. 119 00:19:39.840 --> 00:19:51.720 Kenneth Martinez: The video is also target workforce train right, how do you train them about masks respirators ventilation, which is the next issue, which is the big one, with solution, how to assess and improve. 120 00:19:52.110 --> 00:20:02.010 Kenneth Martinez: Building ventilation, but critically important who is best suited to support health care businesses restaurants. 121 00:20:02.670 --> 00:20:17.430 Kenneth Martinez: The application environmental, health and safety professional, as I said before, we are risk assessors we can go in there, and even if we don't have a background with infectious diseases, you still understand the concept of an exposure to a. 122 00:20:17.910 --> 00:20:24.630 Kenneth Martinez: Biological agent how to address that and how to mitigate that exposure so. 123 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:34.140 Kenneth Martinez: We have we have videos that address how to determine whether a business needs tonight and then how to understand how to find industrial hygiene. 124 00:20:34.800 --> 00:20:43.140 Kenneth Martinez: But everything that we focus on our most predominantly what we focused on in be committed to care our environmental mitigation strategies right. 125 00:20:43.410 --> 00:20:51.990 Kenneth Martinez: But we have not ignored vaccination or human diagnostic testing, these are critical components to controlling the pandemic. 126 00:20:52.560 --> 00:21:08.070 Kenneth Martinez: But the broader scientific community agrees that this primary motor transmission is airborne so environmental mitigation strategies, such as improve ventilation must must must be complimentary to our efforts next slide please. 127 00:21:11.190 --> 00:21:14.850 Kenneth Martinez: So where are we targeting who is our audience again employers. 128 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:29.940 Kenneth Martinez: Employees and the general public, as we begin to grow, the community care program will start working on targeted industry sectors, for example, as we did in the needs assessment summit, perhaps the first responder community. 129 00:21:30.450 --> 00:21:39.630 Kenneth Martinez: we're going to work reach out to them to provide the videos from that summit but also use that as a leverage point to get them to. 130 00:21:40.260 --> 00:21:51.570 Kenneth Martinez: To partner to share in the committed care program or it could be the education industry sector, so we will target those moving forward into the future next slide. 131 00:21:54.000 --> 00:22:06.090 Kenneth Martinez: So we're going to quickly walk through the side, so the reason being is we want you, even as an additional pages, please go through and track one of these if you're an employer if you're an employee. 132 00:22:06.510 --> 00:22:15.840 Kenneth Martinez: commit and go through the trainings the videos are only two to three minutes long the interactive risk assessment tool will take you about a minute so it's not a long. 133 00:22:16.380 --> 00:22:28.800 Kenneth Martinez: process and an hour of training, that you will have to vote to, but we want to hear your feedback as experts in the occupational safety and health Community So the first one is about determining your risk and I talked about that earlier next slide. 134 00:22:31.980 --> 00:22:41.940 Kenneth Martinez: I spoke about all of the workplace workforce training that we have they include both videos and printed content but, again, we talk about risk assessment, how does it. 135 00:22:42.420 --> 00:22:51.030 Kenneth Martinez: drive to determining higher low risk what are respirators, how do you do on and off them what is ventilation what our masks, why do they work next slide. 136 00:22:54.390 --> 00:23:01.380 Kenneth Martinez: ventilation is critically important we have a video devoted to that, but we also provide a checklist both for H back optimization. 137 00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:13.920 Kenneth Martinez: and personal habit air filter checklist now, these are very high level so as you go through it, I know you're gonna say, well, that doesn't say this, or you know it's not detailed enough to address this no this was targeted to be. 138 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:25.710 Kenneth Martinez: across a broad audience, to give them the understanding they need to go and ask the appropriate technical person, such as an industrial hygiene for more detailed. 139 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:28.920 Kenneth Martinez: Focus next slide please. 140 00:23:30.180 --> 00:23:45.990 Kenneth Martinez: We also have printed materials that they can post if someone actually goes through, and taste the committed care challenge a restaurant owner, for example, they can post up their proper proper mastic poster or remembering the phone for DS or ventilation tip for posters next slide please. 141 00:23:47.940 --> 00:23:57.600 Kenneth Martinez: And also wearing masks can be educational to their customer base as well, so you can post this closer to the door we do still see businesses who require. 142 00:23:58.170 --> 00:24:08.040 Kenneth Martinez: mask wearing I just dropped off a package of fedex two days ago, even in the presence of CDC current guidance, the door still says anybody who enters must wear masks. 143 00:24:09.090 --> 00:24:09.930 Kenneth Martinez: Next slide please. 144 00:24:13.140 --> 00:24:26.550 Kenneth Martinez: I already talked about the determining if you need an age and how to find an occupational health, environmental safety, professional we have videos to address that and we also have a link to the online ha's consultants directly next slide please. 145 00:24:28.470 --> 00:24:33.960 Kenneth Martinez: And, as I mentioned before, we did not ignore vaccination nor human diagnostic testing next slide please. 146 00:24:37.590 --> 00:24:40.110 Kenneth Martinez: So, if this means color is this you. 147 00:24:40.530 --> 00:24:41.490 Lawrence Sloan: This is your last one. 148 00:24:41.730 --> 00:24:54.960 Kenneth Martinez: Okay, so as you take the test, you will receive a digital badge if you're a business if you're a partner if you are a graduate of the training itself that you can post on your doors. 149 00:24:55.650 --> 00:25:06.780 Kenneth Martinez: use it as a logo, would you send out your emails to show that you believe in the program and that you support the ideals that we're presenting here today next next slide please, and to you, lori. 150 00:25:07.500 --> 00:25:08.700 Lawrence Sloan: hi very good Thank you can. 151 00:25:09.120 --> 00:25:14.130 Lawrence Sloan: So, as we wrap up here there's three levels of endorsement and support that we're reaching out to our. 152 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:30.390 Lawrence Sloan: Allied associations and other corporate partners Level one is basically an endorsement level we provide you, excuse me, providing us with ones organizations logo, we would add that logo to the committed care website and provide you with communications materials. 153 00:25:32.070 --> 00:25:36.300 Lawrence Sloan: number two is endorse and share, which is a combination of number one. 154 00:25:36.750 --> 00:25:43.860 Lawrence Sloan: and your organization's commitment to share information about this program with your colleagues with your constituents with your membership. 155 00:25:44.280 --> 00:25:48.450 Lawrence Sloan: If you agree, then we would provide you with a media toolkit. 156 00:25:49.050 --> 00:25:59.760 Lawrence Sloan: That would contain sample newsletter articles sample email invitations that can be tailored to your Members sample social media posts and also artwork for you to add to your own web page. 157 00:26:00.270 --> 00:26:07.050 Lawrence Sloan: And then finally Level three is the endorse share and lead and now be a combination of number two. 158 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:13.890 Lawrence Sloan: Plus your organization's commitment to a point of liaison they would help us reach out to other audiences. 159 00:26:14.190 --> 00:26:26.970 Lawrence Sloan: So, this would be somebody who can help arrange brief webinars either within your organization or outside of your organization to further educate and mobilize even more people to make them aware of the committed care website. 160 00:26:27.510 --> 00:26:39.750 Lawrence Sloan: This particular point he would also be invited to periodic meetings and provided with a leadership toolkit that would help guide them and joining us as we lead this public education effort so Level one endorsement. 161 00:26:40.140 --> 00:26:46.350 Lawrence Sloan: Level two endorsement and share Level three endorsement share and lead next slide please. 162 00:26:47.850 --> 00:26:55.500 Lawrence Sloan: So here is an up to date, listing of the various organizations and agencies that have stepped up, thus far we've just begun our outreach. 163 00:26:55.860 --> 00:27:01.320 Lawrence Sloan: we've done various presentations were very pleased to report that just yesterday we heard from Axa. 164 00:27:01.710 --> 00:27:07.440 Lawrence Sloan: and also the Australian I facial hygiene association so we'll be adding their logos to this slide. 165 00:27:07.860 --> 00:27:21.240 Lawrence Sloan: we've also reached out to over 200 other allied professionals, including the better business bureau national chambers of commerce and the Small Business Administration, so this is really a very broad grassroots effort to spread the word. 166 00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:26.250 Lawrence Sloan: So we're going to continue to reach out even though those that said they couldn't participate right now. 167 00:27:26.580 --> 00:27:36.510 Lawrence Sloan: To the other more pressing priorities, we are going to continue to stay in contact with these organizations, because we feel that this is a very, very worthwhile initiative and again as Ken noted. 168 00:27:36.870 --> 00:27:44.460 Lawrence Sloan: All of the information, all of the materials on the website are completely free of charge next slide please. 169 00:27:45.390 --> 00:27:58.770 Lawrence Sloan: So our call to action for AJ Members would be to share this PowerPoint with your employers and if you're a consultant, if you are dealing with other companies, we encourage you to share this PowerPoint with your clients. 170 00:27:59.550 --> 00:28:07.320 Lawrence Sloan: Take the pledge yourself as Ken indicated these videos are relatively short and you can really whizz through a lot of the materials in a very quick amount of time. 171 00:28:07.860 --> 00:28:19.890 Lawrence Sloan: Share commit to carry on your social networks and then please don't hesitate to connect us with any organizations or companies that you think we'd be willing to step up and take the committed care pledge. 172 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:36.480 Lawrence Sloan: And with that next slide please, I want to thank you, Ken for co presenting so well with me today and thank everybody for their time and attention we'll take questions in the Q amp a section, and thank you very much again for your interest so i'll turn it back to you. 173 00:28:38.940 --> 00:28:44.820 Susan Marchese Lewis: Thanks Larry Thank you Kim um would anyone have any questions I haven't seen any. 174 00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:49.290 Susan Marchese Lewis: Questions come through at this point, but if you do. 175 00:28:50.460 --> 00:28:56.790 Susan Marchese Lewis: It ask that you would please pop them into the Q amp a and we'll be happy to answer your question. 176 00:29:08.550 --> 00:29:14.310 Susan Marchese Lewis: So if I think i'm going to actually seed, a question here. 177 00:29:15.330 --> 00:29:18.570 Susan Marchese Lewis: and ask both of you for your. 178 00:29:19.740 --> 00:29:21.870 Susan Marchese Lewis: For your advice, and that is. 179 00:29:23.460 --> 00:29:50.790 Susan Marchese Lewis: If an organization is willing to sign on to commit to care and they, for example, let's just say a big company or even a small business and they sign on as an employee or what would be the next step for them as an employer or to encourage their employees to get involved. 180 00:29:53.370 --> 00:29:59.220 Lawrence Sloan: i'll kick this off, you know, one of the first things that company can do is to get with their human resources department. 181 00:29:59.700 --> 00:30:04.440 Lawrence Sloan: And to integrate training opportunities, perhaps throughout their schedule. 182 00:30:04.890 --> 00:30:15.960 Lawrence Sloan: So that the employees actually have time to become familiar with the materials, you know there's a lot of information there, but I think the company has the responsibility to communicate very clearly to its employees. 183 00:30:16.500 --> 00:30:28.470 Lawrence Sloan: we've signed on as a sponsor we're taking this pledge we're going to walk the talk, but then they need to make sure that they're very clear with their employees what their expectations are and that probably needs to be orchestrated through. 184 00:30:28.890 --> 00:30:32.910 Lawrence Sloan: The human resources department, so that would be my suggestion is a next step. 185 00:30:34.350 --> 00:30:35.040 Susan Marchese Lewis: clary. 186 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:44.580 Kenneth Martinez: follow up with that, so we really like you know the point of contact to run through the training for us i've actually. 187 00:30:44.940 --> 00:30:49.080 Kenneth Martinez: approached some a couple of larger companies and one of the push backs I got was saying well. 188 00:30:49.380 --> 00:30:55.710 Kenneth Martinez: We don't want this to substitute for the current training that we're doing it's really very detailed I said no, no that's not the point at all. 189 00:30:55.950 --> 00:31:08.550 Kenneth Martinez: If you have training that you're delivering with regard to endemic that's wonderful news I said what we're trying to do is get people to understand these basic concepts and maybe they could use this as an introduction. 190 00:31:09.060 --> 00:31:11.580 Kenneth Martinez: To their broader content that they have available. 191 00:31:12.180 --> 00:31:25.620 Kenneth Martinez: It would only take them like 10 minutes for an employee to walk through one of the training slides and then say Oh, this is intriguing and so now, they can actually push their their more detailed training at these boys understand that this is a. 192 00:31:26.910 --> 00:31:35.280 Kenneth Martinez: volunteer effort, this is not a mandate, we want to be clear about that, however, if you were to look very carefully at all the content that we generated. 193 00:31:35.790 --> 00:31:44.100 Kenneth Martinez: It is very similar with almost 100% not quite 100% but very similar to the OSHA emergency temporary standard that was out there. 194 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:55.680 Kenneth Martinez: Where the ocean dts talked about a job as an analysis, what is that, if not risk assessment, they talk about ventilation, they talk about mass and respirators we were addressing the same thing. 195 00:31:56.130 --> 00:32:06.600 Kenneth Martinez: we're just giving a very simplified I level view of all of the key things that need to be in everyone's mind with regard to these things, and if people wanted to delve deeper. 196 00:32:06.900 --> 00:32:23.310 Kenneth Martinez: that there are other options to do that as well within a company within a corporation, or even outside that, for example, we do know that the labors International Union or North America has an extensive training program on coven it back to you soon. 197 00:32:25.500 --> 00:32:28.770 Susan Marchese Lewis: awesome Thank you so much um I also would like to. 198 00:32:30.090 --> 00:32:44.100 Susan Marchese Lewis: mention that if, as an AIG number anyone would like to possibly do a presentation about this for add slides like this to a presentation, you may have coming up. 199 00:32:44.850 --> 00:32:56.880 Susan Marchese Lewis: We will make these slides available to Members, and we will be putting that on our online Community the catalyst and making that available for you. 200 00:32:58.080 --> 00:33:01.830 Susan Marchese Lewis: At this time I don't see any questions. 201 00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:06.090 Susan Marchese Lewis: But I don't know if. 202 00:33:07.710 --> 00:33:21.030 Susan Marchese Lewis: People are having trouble finding the Q amp a box here, but I do hope that if you have any burning questions you see our email addresses here on screen. 203 00:33:21.810 --> 00:33:42.660 Susan Marchese Lewis: Please do feel free to reach out to us and we are very grateful for your time and your interest in this wonderful public awareness initiative that we are very proud of, and as I ages, hopefully this will help raise not just. 204 00:33:44.340 --> 00:33:50.040 Susan Marchese Lewis: The awareness of for this initiative, but also awareness of the profession. 205 00:33:50.700 --> 00:33:57.420 Lawrence Sloan: And I think i'd add to that and just say that you know we've we've presented a lot of information for folks that are not familiar with the site. 206 00:33:57.840 --> 00:34:04.020 Lawrence Sloan: And I would encourage folks that have watched this recording to take a look around at the site poke around. 207 00:34:04.800 --> 00:34:12.870 Lawrence Sloan: look at it from the perspective of the employer, the employee and the general public there's again three different pathways, if you will, depending upon where you're coming from. 208 00:34:13.350 --> 00:34:22.470 Lawrence Sloan: and several of you obviously can wear multiple hats, you might be the employer, you might be the owner of your organization, you might be an employee and you're certainly a member of the public. 209 00:34:22.890 --> 00:34:31.710 Lawrence Sloan: and take a look at the different pathways and you can see the way it's organized is by pathway employer employee general public as well, then by industry sector. 210 00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:39.840 Lawrence Sloan: And for those of you that are consultants, you might want to take a couple different approaches, depending upon the kind of work that you do, whether it's in the healthcare sector or not. 211 00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:47.700 Lawrence Sloan: And you'll see there are different nuances to the different educational knowledge products that have been presented along those different pathways of learning. 212 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:50.640 Lawrence Sloan: Thank you. 213 00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:57.420 Kenneth Martinez: And one message one final message for me is that there's been a lot of attention over the past couple weeks that. 214 00:34:57.690 --> 00:35:12.360 Kenneth Martinez: We are in a decline with go with 19 that things are improving route of the woods have seen that published in the literature and places CDC has received their guidance, with regard to mass boring indoors with them as they're healthy and vaccinated I personally think it's too soon. 215 00:35:13.410 --> 00:35:19.230 Kenneth Martinez: As I mentioned before, we still have 35 5% of our US population and goes on vaccinated. 216 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:28.110 Kenneth Martinez: elma cron va to is on the decline, but we are seeing some rumblings from other countries were BA two is beginning to. 217 00:35:28.860 --> 00:35:36.210 Kenneth Martinez: Take a foothold and from what i've seen in the literature, it is 30% more transmissible and can be more severe. 218 00:35:36.570 --> 00:35:47.340 Kenneth Martinez: And it is creating a problem, and if you countries such as Denmark that completely receptive all of their mess or all of their mandate so as industrial hygiene, so I encourage you to be prepared. 219 00:35:47.640 --> 00:35:55.440 Kenneth Martinez: Keep your eyes on the horizon, and while we may not be done with this yet, in my opinion, this will not be our last pandemic. 220 00:35:55.950 --> 00:36:09.840 Kenneth Martinez: Take this things that we've been through in the past two years, and as lessons learned and apply that moving forward to your business to your consulting firm and helping our nation helping their Community prepare for what may be coming down the pipe next. 221 00:36:13.170 --> 00:36:15.570 Susan Marchese Lewis: That Thank you so much Larry. 222 00:36:15.570 --> 00:36:23.190 Susan Marchese Lewis: And Ken for incredible insights and thank you all for your attention today have a great rest of the day.