Webinar: Know the Drill for Healthy IAQ: Training School Staff and Occupants to Reduce Indoor Asthma Triggers

Recorded June 9, 2016

Webinar Description

Design and implement training as part of a sustainable IAQ management program to help staff identify, recognize, and address indoor environmental asthma triggers and effectively manage asthma in schools.

Webinar Viewers Will:

• Train staff to identify, recognize and address indoor environmental asthma triggers and perform the actions essential for effectively managing asthma in schools.
• Design and successfully implement a staff training system as part of a sustainable IAQ management program.
• Successfully implement the Framework for Effective School IAQ Management and systematically address IAQ issues with policies and practices that save money and improve health.
• Use the School IAQ Assessment Mobile App—new technology featuring the IAQ Tools for Schools Action Kit—to conduct regular walkthrough assessments and take simple, low-cost actions to prevent or correct environmental health issues in school facilities.
• Replicate best practices used by a school district facility director who successfully implemented IAQ Tools for Schools and improved IAQ in his school district.​

Moderator

• Tracy Washington Enger, Facilitator, Indoor Environments Division, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC

Speakers

• David Blake, Indoor Air Quality Specialist, Northwest Clean Air Agency, WA
• Francine Locke, Director, Office of Environmental Management & Services, The School District of Philadelphia, PA

Expert Panel

• Diane Rhodes, Asthma Awareness Education Program, Assistant Director, Health Services, North East Independent School District, TX
• Peggy Caruso, Assistant Director of Maintenance and Operations, Katy Independent School District, TX
• Barbara Kaplan, Director of Lung Health Education, American Lung Association
• Shirley Shantz, Director of Nursing, National Association of School Nurses