Lessons of the 1937 Texas School Explosion

There ought to be a law

Serious gaps in existing laws regulating the production and use of hazardous chemicals fail to protect public health and the environment, according to a report by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA. As a result of this inadequate oversight, chemical and pollution-related diseases among children and workers in California cost the state's insurers, businesses and families an estimated $2.6 billion in direct and indirect costs, says the report, which includes a set of recommended policy reforms for the state.

UC Berkeley News
(http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2 008/01/17_greenchem.shtml)

Green Chemistry: Cornerstone to a Suitable California (http://www.coeh.ucla.edu/Greenchemistry.pdf)

E-Newsbrief of the National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health
Training at http://tools.niehs.nih.gov /wetp/

Added on May 30, 2008 by healthykids

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Added on May 27, 2008 by healthykids

Danvers Explosion

CSB Investigation into Massive 2006 CAI Explosion in Danvers, Massachusetts, Concludes Lack of Company Safeguards Allowed Solvent Vapor to Accumulate When Ink-Mixing Tank Was Left Heating Overnight

Added on May 22, 2008 by healthykids

National Healthy Schools Day

April 28, 2008

http://www.healthyschools.org

2008 Press and Events

Green Cleaning Guide

School Design Guide

Added on May 01, 2008 by healthykids

IAQ and Health Resource

The new IAQ Scientific Findings Resource Bank web site is now available
at http://eetd.lbl.gov/ied/sfrb .

Added on April 30, 2008 by healthykids

Be a resource to your school

Parents and other community groups need to help schools make chemical safety part of ongoing school security audits and safety plans.
Strengthening Your School's Response to Explosives and Other Hazardous Materials v. 2008

Added on April 17, 2008 by healthykids

Conducting a Chemical Cleanout

"Conducting a Full Chemical Cleanout in Schools," by Rachel Colella, Northeast Waste Management Officials Association, September 2007

www.newmoa.org/prevention/projects/ chemcleanout/ConductingChemicalCleanout.pdf

Added on April 16, 2008 by healthykids

A Model Partnership for Safe Kids

Decade of Dedication to Kids Health & the Environment

By: California Safe Schools
Yesterday in Los Angeles, many distinguished environmental health and justice advocates in addition to political leaders expressed their gratitude & praised the efforts of the Los Angeles Unified School District, (2nd largest in the nation) for working cooperatively for a decade with California Safe Schools (CSS), a children's environmental health organization in creating the most protective pesticide policy for schools in the country.

Added on March 28, 2008 by healthykids

Lessons can still be learned

Seventy-one years after a tragic -- and preventable -- explosion, lessons can still be learned from the London School Tragedy. See "Time to Heal," Glenn Cook, American School Board Journal, April 2008, volume 195, no. 04, pages 44-47.

Added on March 25, 2008 by healthykids