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Tool Kit for Safe Chemical Management in K-12 Schools
The EPA's web-based tool kit helps schools start chemical management programs that will improve their chemical management practices by:
- Removing inappropriate, outdated, unknown and unnecessary chemicals from schools;
- Preventing future chemical mismanagement issues in schools through training, curriculum and policy change, and long-term management solutions; and
- Raising awareness of chemical issues in schools and promoting sustainable solutions.
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Documents in the Tool Kit
- Building Successful Programs to Address Chemical
Risks in Schools (PDF) (173 pp, 1.5MB)
is an updated workbook that contains templates, tips and techniques to help you create
or improve your program for responsible chemical waste management in schools.
- Building Successful Programs to Address Chemical
Risks in Schools: State, Tribal and Local School Chemical Cleanout Programs
Matrix and Summaries (PDF) (35 pp, 540K)
summarizes successful programs to address chemical risks in schools.
- Chemical Management
Resource Guide for School Administrators is a guide to help your school
reduce the use of dangerous chemicals and install safer chemical management
practices.
- CPSC
and NIOSH School Chemistry Laboratory Safety Guide (PDF) (86
pp, 1.7MB) is a safety guide for high school science and chemistry
laboratories. It provides practical safety information in a checklist format
useful to both groups to reduce chemical injuries in a laboratory environment.
- Green Cleaning Fact Sheet (PDF)
(2 pp, 67K) explains basic green cleaning concepts and offers tips on
how to build a green cleaning program.
- Industry Leaders Are Part of the Solution
(PDF) (1 pg, 171K) describes how industry
can help reduce chemical risks in schools.
- Pollution
Prevention Measures for Safer School Laboratories (PDF) (10
pp, 120K), developed by EPA Region 8 and Roche Colorado, is an easy
to read tool kit offering tips on maintaining an inventory, chemical purchasing,
storage, and labeling, and pollution prevention.
- Protecting Health and the Environment at K-12 Schools, Including Art Programs presents two free manuals—one is a primary environmental compliance guide for K-12 schools, while the other serves the same purpose for art programs at K-12 schools, colleges and art studios. Both manuals also provide best management practices applicable to schools' environmental concerns.