Occupational Exposures in Nail Salons - Emerging Insights from an Ongoing Study

Class description

Learn about the current occupational safety and health research featuring doctorate and master’s program research across Industrial Hygiene. The Northwest Center for Occupational Safety and Health Continuing Education program presents a dynamic webinar series highlighting research discoveries of current Education and Research Center graduate students. 

Each 50-minute live webinar will feature doctorate and master's candidate research Occupational Health Services, Occupational Medicine, and Occupational Health Nursing disciplines. This is an opportunity to hear directly from researchers on relevant, current topics facing workers today. 

*FREE LIVE WEBINAR *

April 2, 2026, 12pm-1:00pm Pacific Time

Occupational Exposures in Nail Salons - Emerging Insights from an Ongoing Study 

Johnny Nguyễn MS, RN, Occupational Health Nursing PhD Candidate, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington

Many of us have been in a nail salon, with a technician carefully work over our hands or feet for long periods of time. If you have had a manicure or pedicure, you’ve seen the physical demands of nail salon work up close. This session brings visibility to the hidden risks faced by nail salon workers, using innovative research methods with early findings that can inform more inclusive, effective occupational health strategies. 

Nail salon work reflects the realities of millions of service and frontline jobs, where physical strain and psychosocial stress intersect, this research and finding are relevant to improving worker health, safety, and equity across today’s nail salon workforce.

Johnny Nguyễn will present on evolving lessons from evidence-based methods to characterize psychosocial exposures among nail salon manicurists and participant recruitment for this study. 

Preliminary findings on the musculoskeletal complaints among manicurists in King County, Washington will also be presented. Time will be allotted for questions. 

Presenter:

Johnny Nguyễn MS, RN

NWCOHS Education and Research Center - Occupational Health Trainee

PhD in Nursing Science Candidate, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington

Learning objectives:

1. Identify research-to-practice findings, methodologies, and opportunities for our occupational safety and health practitioner community professional development.
2. Describe how research aims to address research gaps in occupational safety and health (OSH).
3. Discuss current discovery, collaboration, and innovation within DEOHS/ERC graduate research.

Audience: Industrial hygiene, safety, occupational health nurses, and health and safety professionals