{"id":91884,"date":"2014-04-16T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T04:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=91884"},"modified":"2014-04-16T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:20:21","slug":"health-safety-and-environment-fair-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/04\/health-safety-and-environment-fair-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Health, Safety and Environment Fair Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91931\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91931\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnhealthcenter\/sets\/72157644005606305\/show\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-91931  img-responsive lazyload\" alt=\"nutrition_play\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nutrition_play.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nutrition_play.jpg 700w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nutrition_play-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nutrition_play-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nutrition_play-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 630px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 630\/420;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91931\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The annual Health, Safety and Environment Fair returned for an 11th year Friday. (Sarah Turker\/UConn Health Photo). Click the image above to view a photo gallery of the event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The annual Health, Safety and Environment Fair returned for an 11th year Friday, featuring 26 tables, representing mostly areas of the UConn Health community and some partnering vendors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had well over a thousand employees, students and volunteers come through,\u201d says co-organizer Patti Wawzyniecki from the UConn Health Office of Research Safety.<\/p>\n<p>The theme this year was \u201cHot, Hot, Hot!\u201d and featured a hot-wing-eating contest, sponsored by UConn Health Student Services and local sports bar Sliders.<\/p>\n<p>Other new additions this year included an Environment of Care table, featuring patient safety posters, and a demonstration by Research Safety of a new patient lift for patients with impaired mobility that will be a fixture in the new hospital tower and Outpatient Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the support we\u2019ve received from senior administration, and we certainly couldn\u2019t have done it without all the participants, for all their planning, getting there early to set up their tables, and staffing them,\u201d Wawzyniecki says. \u201cWe\u2019d also like to thank the UConn pharmacy students who provided blood pressure screenings and body mass index readings.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s event drew more than 1,000 employees, students and volunteers and featured a wing-eating contest to go with the \u201cHot, Hot, Hot!\u201d theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":91930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-91884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 15:25:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91934,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91884\/revisions\/91934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/91930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91884"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=91884"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=91884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}