About this Course

This course provides an overview of business drivers and barriers to implementing sustainable practices. Sustainability and product stewardship are driving the need to better understand the fundamental principles of toxicology, human health and material science. Participants will review their own business’ sustainability drivers and barriers while investigating the health and environmental hazards that contribute to human disease.

Topics include:

• Metrics for defining sustainability within a business 
• Key challenges to bringing sustainable technologies to market
• The basic principles of toxicology and human health
• Chemical exposure, routes of exposure, and understanding risk of exposure
• Concepts that affect human toxicity