BE SAFE Campaign for Precaution
The BE SAFE Campaign for Precaution is working to empower the grassroots movement for long-term systemic change that transforms the way we approach environmental regulation and decision making. This change is rooted in a paradigm shift away from risk/benefit and cost/benefit decision-making that asks, "what level of harm is acceptable?" to a precautionary approach which asks, "how can we prevent harm?"
BE SAFE promotes precautionary action to prevent pollution and eliminate environmental health threats. We organize grassroots actions on environmental hazards, support local and state efforts to adopt precautionary policies, and sponsor campaigns to convince corporations to make safer products.
BE SAFE works with a nationwide network of activists by facilitating the sharing of information, resources, and successful strategies and policies. BE SAFE organizes regional meetings and policy campaigns with groups in NY, NC, FL and other states. Since 2003, the BE SAFE network of groups has held over 400 events to encourage precautionary action on chemical policies, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, PVC plastic, school hazards and Superfund toxic waste sites.
PVC Consumer Campaign
The PVC Consumer Campaign is coordinated by BE SAFE. The campaign works with grassroots community, environmental, health and labor organizations to prevent harm by shifting decision makers from producing and using PVC (polyvinyl chloride) products and packaging and substituting it with safe materials. Through the campaign we are supporting communities hardest hit by environmental injustices from the PVC industry and lifecycle, shifting the market away from poisonous chemicals in consumer products, and supporting model policy efforts to reform chemicals policy.
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
BE SAFE is a campaign of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. CHEJ is a national, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that provides organizing and technical assistance to grassroots community organizations nationwide. The center was founded in 1981 by Lois Gibbs, who together with her neighbors won the relocation of more than 900 families from their neighborhood after it was contaminated by chemicals leaking from the Love Canal landfill in Niagara Falls, NY. CHEJ's mission is to build healthy communities with social justice, economic well-being, and democratic governance.
