What you can do

Mount Allison University, Scent Campaign.

The Joint Health and Safety Committee will maintain the website and oversee the policy, helping others to use it, and will periodically review it with an eye to improving it.

What you can do:

Faculty - if you or a student in your class has a sensitivity to scents, you can announce in class or note on the course outline that your classroom is a scent reduced space.

Students - if you are sensitive to scents, tell your room mate(s) and your instructors. If you are approached by someone who is scent sensitive, try to see the issue from the point of view of the person who has spoken to you. It probably was hard for them to do it so it must be important to her/him. You can sometimes simply use less of a product or choose one that is less likely to bother someone, or use a scent-free alternative.

Staff - if you or someone where you work is sensitive to scents, talk to the person wearing the scent or your manager.

Managers - if a member of your department has told you of a sensitivity, you should try to deal with the issue with the least amount of bother. You may speak with the person wearing the scent to let him/her know of the health concerns, establish a scent reduced or scent free policy for your office, or discuss the matter with your office as a whole to come up with a solution. This may be as simple as rearranging the office to limit the contact of the two people, if this is possible.

Everyone - when calling a meeting, if you are aware that one of the attendees is scent sensitive or you are yourself, note on the agenda "No scents, please." Post the decals and posters available from the Mount Allison Scent Policy website. Be open to people with concerns from both sides of the issue.

For more information on dealing with these issues see these helpful links:

Dalhousie University's Scent Free Campaign - How to Deal with Difficult Situations

Saint Mary's University Scent Awareness - How to Deal with Difficult Situations