NCIL Statement on Fragrance-Free Events

NCIL Statement on Fragrance-Free Events The National Council on Independent Living has developed the following statement on the importance of attending events fragrance-free in order to ensure accessibility for all attendees, specifically at the 2012 Annual Conference on Independent Living. Fragrance can be an access barrier! To help make this conference accessible to participants for whom chemicals or fragrances are an access barrier, NCIL requests that you come fragrance-free. Please refrain from wearing any scented products or washing with them. This includes clothing that has been laundered with fragranced detergent or fabric softening products. Additionally, please completely air out any dry-cleaned clothing before wearing it to the conference. Read more information about how and why to be fragrance free. Smoke can be an access barrier! It is also essential that we maintain a smoke-free environment. If you smoke, please use the designated smoking area located outside the conference center. Please refrain from smoking near any other doorways or paths of travel. The hotel entrance at 11st Street will be the least polluted with cigarette smoke and vehicle exhaust. Unfortunately, it has steps. The Washington Center office building is attached to the Grand Hyatt and offers an accessible entrance to the hotel with minimal exposure to smoke and vehicle exhaust at the corner of 11th & G Streets NW. Cell phones can be an access barrier! Please turn off cell phones at all conference events and when requested.