Healthy Cleaning & Asthma-Safer Schools: A How-To Guide

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• Personal Author:
  Flattery J ; Shrem D ; Weinberg J
• Description:
  Some conventional cleaning products can cause asthma or make it worse, create other health problems, and pollute the air in California's schools. Everyone in schools-custodians, staff, and students-may be exposed when harmful cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting products are used. The Cleaning for Asthma-Safe Schools (CLASS) project developed Healthy Cleaning and Asthma-Safer Schools: A How-To Guide. The Guide is primarily for California school districts' facilities, maintenance, and operations managers or supervisors. This guide helps school districts transition to asthma-safer products and practices. Any time the Guide uses the term "asthma-safer," it refers to products and methods that help prevent asthma or asthma symptoms. These products and methods are also safer to use, healthier, and greener. The How-To Guide also discusses the important difference between cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting, and suggests when to do each. Newer cleaning products and technologies are now available so that school districts can save money and have a clean and healthy school with fewer risks to health and the environment. The Guide explains how to switch to asthma-safer cleaning in simple, manageable steps. It first describes why safer cleaning practices are preferable and then outlines how to accomplish each step: 1. Create your Asthma-Safer Cleaning Team 2. Train cleaning crew on asthma-safer products, methods, equipment, and the need for them 3. Inventory products to reduce costs 4. Select products to test 5. Arrange vendor presentations and select vendors 6. Test, evaluate, and choose asthma-safer products 7. Communicate your success and set policies The Guide includes ready-to-use forms and tools to help districts progress through each step, and publicize successes. For example, there's a sample cleaning inventory to help keep track of cleaning products and a press release to promote your asthma-safer cleaning efforts. The Guide highlights cleaning success stories and lessons learned from school districts throughout the country. It also offers resources to help you and your team learn more about green cleaning, asthma, and disinfection. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution, Indoor Asthma Asthma, Occupational Chronic Disease Disinfectants Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Chronic Diseases Cleaning Compounds Indoor Air Pollution Respiratory Diseases
• Publisher:
  California Department of Public Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-72
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059417
• Citation:
  Richmond, CA: California Department of Public Health, 2014 Oct; :1-72
• Contact Point Address:
  Cleaning for Asthma-Safe Schools Project, Work-Related Asthma Prevention Program, Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health
• Email:
  workrelatedasthma@cdph.ca.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Institute
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Healthy cleaning & asthma-safer schools: a how-to guide
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b6fa062dd990d492a2eb513abb54088c883135bcc1cfb94d3ddfb35335481c8ec301fa371f6d3d9344ad9a48efb2242b3f86acf560754f4762ad56adc57d10cc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223663/cdc_223663_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.48 MB ]