Table 1 Impacts of the Women Workers Biomonitoring Collaborative and the scale of action
Impact | Scale of action |
|---|---|
Increased knowledge on how to reduce personal exposures to household chemicals through personal report-back and community outreach | Local |
Increased knowledge on how to reduce workplace exposures through a worker training program | Local, state |
Upgraded fire station decontamination protocols | Local, state |
Lent evidence to support firefighter claims that a cancer was occupationally related under cancer presumptive laws | Local, state |
Supported adoption of California policy to restrict use of PFAS-containing firefighting foams | State |
Shifted cultural attitudes about the importance of addressing women’s health in firefighting | Local, state, national, international |
Identified elevated exposures of firefighters to chemicals such as PFAS and flame retardants | Local, state, national, international |
Advanced non-targeted biomonitoring methods | National, international |
Created a biospecimen archive of women workers | National, international |
Supported approval of global ban on some PFAS through Stockholm Convention | International |