Lessons of the 1937 Texas School Explosion

Good Model

University of Kansas Laboratory Safety Evaluation

This check list is an appraisal of chemical hygiene and general safety precautions in your laboratory. Its purpose is to evaluate your laboratory's compliance with the University's Laboratory Safety Manual . This evaluation form provides a mechanism for identifying safety weaknesses in your laboratory activities and an opportunity for you to correct safety deficiencies in order to reduce the risk of an accident or injury. It is important that the items of concern be promptly addressed and corrected. This form can be found at the Lab Safety Homepage . Questions regarding the evaluation should be directed to Environment, Health & Safety at 864-4089.

For Parents: 5 Questions To Check Out

Talk with your child's principal, teacher or school nurse about these questions.

  See Parents Resource Center at: www.healthinschools.org/parents

• If my child gets sick or hurt at school, what steps will be followed to help my child?
• If my child is prescribed a medication that must be taken during the school day, how do I arrange for administration and safe storage of the medication?
• If there is an emergency at the school or in its neighborhood, what procedures are in place to protect the school community and how will parents learn of these actions?
• How can my child and I find out what the school cafeteria is serving for lunch and how can I be sure that the lunches are nutritious?
• What opportunities will my child have for physical activity during the school day?

The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University http://www.healthinschools.org

http://ehs.ucdavis.edu/ucih/pages/lessons.cfm

LEARNING LESSONS FROM NEW LONDON.

Proclaim March 18 as Healthy Schools Heroes Day
in your school.

Go to the New London School Explosion website,
www.nlse.org, to read the stories of the survivors,
witnesses and family members of the victims
at "Recollections" and "Sharing Information" .

How do these stories from  New  London compare  with your daily experiences, dreams, relationships
and expectations?

One of the eyewitnesses to the disaster was a young
reporter named Walter Cronkite.  Decades later, Cronkite
said,


"I did nothing in my studies nor in my life to prepare
 me for a story of the magnitude of that New London tragedy,
nor has any story since that awful day equaled it."