Topic: 'Healthy Schools'
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- Program encourages teachers to create healthy, sustainable classrooms.
- How to go about a simple school walkthrough inspection and what potential IAQ problems to be on the lookout for.
- ISSA's focus is on improving human health, reducing environmental impact, and positively influencing facilities’ and members’ bottom lines.
- The Healthy Facilities Institute (HFI) is pleased to officially support the Cleaning Industry Research Institute International (CIRI) Symposium, “Cleaning & Disinfection: The Science, Practice & Controversy”.
- The president of the Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) sums up his views on carpet for the Healthy Carpet Workgroup.
- 'Glowing hands' in the waiting room improves kids' handwashing.
- Jeffrey C. May, MA, principal scientist, May Indoor Air Investigations LLC, and member of the HFI Healthy Carpet Workgroup, shares his perspective.
- Werner Braun, president of the Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI), and member of the HFI Healthy Carpet Workgroup, offers his perspective.
- Promoting discussion of asthma, allergies, and the role of carpet selection and care.
- Parents and teachers may want to consider disinfecting high traffic areas.
- Cleaning, by its very nature and definition, is, or should be, green.
- Without a long-term commitment to comprehensive environmental management, not even the best high performance school can hope to stay high performing for very long.
- Process Cleaning for Healthy Schools™ (PCHS™) optimizes efficiency, cleanliness, ease-of-deployment, and health factors through a carefully designed and documented system tailored for K-12 school districts.
- Asthma is a big problem in schools, and reducing it is a way for cleaning product distributors to make a big difference.
- Data from many facilities show that a properly commissioned building with controls and equipment functioning properly can save 5%-15% in total building energy cost. With a little knowledge this can be done without compromising IAQ.
- Since a floor that is slip-resistant when wet will generally be slip resistant when dry, taking measurements of the condition of floors by benchmarking the wet Coefficient of Friction (COF) is an important starting point to raise safety levels.
- Walk-throughs are a practical learning experience for staff that builds awareness, confidence and skills – essential elements of a sustainable IAQ program.
- How to prevent the growth of mold and mildew in the school environment.
- A green school is not necessarily a healthy school unless it takes into consideration the health of its occupants and is operated accordingly.
- Any cleaning process must be validated by measurements of contamination levels before and after a cleaning step.
- A healthy school needs to engage in a scientific and professional cleaning process to realize its health objectives.