Did you know 25% of chemicals in the cleaning products used in schools are toxic and contribute to poor indoor air quality, smog, cancer, asthma, and other disease? There is a better way to clean.

The Cleaning for Healthy Schools Toolkit is a training tool you can use to build awareness, knowledge, and commitment to adopting best practices for green cleaning in schools and child care centers. Easy-to-use learning modules can be customized to introduce all audiences to green cleaning and Cleaning for Healthy Schools. The Toolkit is an open source, industry free, externally reviewed tool to develop programs and policy for districts, cities, and states.

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Sample Presentations

What is Cleaning for Healthy Schools? - Keeping schools clean, child and worker health, asthma, chemical hazards, green cleaning
     
Module 1 Audio

Chemicals: your health and right to know - Workers, personnel, parents, OSHA, MSDS, labels, right to know
     
Module 2 Audio

Getting Started: The School Building Walk-Through - Building walk-through, special needs, advanced equipment
     
Module 3 Audio

What schools need to know - Keep dirt out, child and worker health, chemical hazards, asthma, third-party certified products and advanced equipment
      Module 4 Audio


Training Schedule

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News—
Journal of Environmental Health Green Cleaning Memo (June 2009)

National Collaborative Work Group on
Green Cleaning and Chemical Policy Reform in Schools

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