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SGIA Co-Sponsored NEHS Conference Seeing Green

Friday 18. January 2008 - Industry event features sustainability insight from major corporations

The 2008 National Environmental Health and Safety Conference (Indianapolis; March 12-14, 2008) is taking health, safety and human resource issues to the green level.

The conference — geared to the health and safety decision makers within the graphic communications industries — is shifting more of its focus to ways printing companies of all platforms can operate and be profitable using a sustainable business model.

Among the corporate sustainability highlights:

* Brian Shuttleworth with the H.J. Heinz Co. will reveal the global food brand’s efforts to be environmentally and socially responsible.

* Mark DiVito with Reed Business Information, an international publishing organization, will offer a workplace case study, detailing how sustainability impacts decision making and attitudes at printing and packaging companies.

Additionally, the NEHS Conference will hold roundtable discussions allowing attendees to talk one-on-one with industry peers and experts about their specific workplace situations, and discuss possible solutions.

“We set the conference’s theme as ‘Green Pathways to Sustainability’ because it’s an important industry issue that trickles down into every part of an imaging company’s operations,” said Marci Kinter, SGIA’s Vice President of Government and Business Information.

The conference’s sustainability slant made it the best venue to introduce the new Sustainable Green Printing Partnership, a collaboration formed by SGIA and other trade groups to help establish performance criteria for all printing businesses that strive to be sustainable.

Also new for this year’s conference: SGIA’s Hazardous Materials Transportation Training program during the event. This comprehensive seminar certifies specialty imaging companies that in any way handle or ship hazardous materials