#1. Order a FREE "Indoor Air Quality [IAQ] Tools for Schools" kit. This program, designed by the EPA, helps insure good, safe indoor air quality for school occupants. You can order the free kit here: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/schools/actionkit.html .
#2. Go through the "IAQ Tools for Schools" kit. Watch the videos. Read the material, review the IAQ check lists. Learn about the importance of good indoor air quality and the affects poor IAQ can have on building occupants.
#3. Share what you have learned with other parents and members of the PTO. Share it with your school administrators, school nurses, and teachers. As parents, you have the most influence to help make reforms within your school district to protect your children.
#3. Encourage schools to EDUCATE their schools maintenance workers. How school maintenance workers clean - or do not clean - has a direct and dynamic affect on your child's heath and safety.
#4. "Get Clean by Going Green!" If schools would change their chemical, toxic cleaning products to biodegradable, environmentally, safe cleaning products, the safety and health of our children would be improved. Using "green" cleaners will reduce toxins and off gasses in school buildings, improving the air our children breathe each day.
See side bar to links of Eco-friendly cleaning products. If industial strength cleaners are needed, make sure your school purchases products with the "GREEN SEAL."
A few "Tools for Schools" FACTS:
Schools that are already using the "EPA's Tools for Schools" are reporting:
- a reduction in use of inhalers in schools
- less trips to the school nurse.
- better attendance
- Increase in student performance . . . this is significant!
One piece of the IAQ Tools for Schools is a "Walk Through." Two short video segments can be seen below.
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