NAHA Safety Committee Mission Statement
September 2000

The NAHA Safety Committee (1998 to present...) under the chair of Sylla Sheppard Hanger and Tony Burfield will endeavor to promote and educate to NAHA members, the safe use of pure essential oils, hydrolats, absolutes, and other natural materials known in the art. This work will be carried out via the establishment of safe handling advice, a negative list of materials, and the writing of a regular safety column in the house magazine The Aromatherapy Journal a.k.a. "Sensitivity". Furthermore dialogue with other aromatherapy organizations and experts will be undertaken, and safety advice and promotional materials exchanged given wherever practically possible. This may, for example, take the form of offering the Sensitivity articles for reproduction in other aromatherapy magazines worldwide.

When this program is complete, the policy will be available as a written voluntary code of practice, perhaps largely drawn from codes already in place in other industries e.g. the perfumery industry, but modified to the needs of the aromatherapy industry. This program, together with the negative list of materials which it is recommended that NAHA members do not use, should be put before the NAHA conference in Seattle in October 2000, for adoption by the membership.