Webinar: What Schools Need to Know: Practices and Principles for Healthy IAQ and Reducing the Spread of Viruses

Recorded August 13, 2020

Webinar Description

Learn about strategies for developing a comprehensive IAQ management plan to proactively prevent the spread of viruses and bacteria in schools. Identify key IAQ considerations that address a range of critical areas related to controlling the spread of diseases, including ventilation, filtration and air cleaning, cleaning/disinfection of high-contact surfaces, personal protective equipment (PPE), social distancing, and managing special spaces (e.g., toilets, sick rooms, etc.).

Webinar Viewers Will:

• Develop a proactive, comprehensive IAQ management plan to help implement CDC considerations for schools to help prevent the spread of viruses and bacteria.
• Identify key IAQ considerations that address a range of critical areas related to controlling the spread of diseases in schools, including ventilation, filtration and air cleaning, cleaning/disinfection of high-contact surfaces, PPE, social distancing, and managing special spaces (e.g., toilets, sick rooms, etc.);.
• Implement practices, policies, standards and behaviors to operationalize and tailor recommendations from general guidance to meet specific school district needs.

Moderator

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

Speakers

• Greg Whiteley, Ph.D., Chairman, Whiteley Corporation, Adjunct Fellow, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Australia
• Prof. Richard Shaughnessy, Ph.D., Director, Indoor Air Quality Research Program, University of Tulsa, OK
• Prof. Mark Hernandez, Ph.D., PE, S.J. Archuleta Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO