Why does a school need a Chemical Hygiene Officer? This free course answers that one question for superintendents, principals, board members and department heads, with the evidence read from the agencies and studies that hold it.

Eight short lessons, most with a video from the agency or society that owns the subject: the chemicals found when states looked in school cabinets; the injuries and evacuations counted in schools; the missing oversight behind them; what OSHA’s Laboratory Standard and the state programs require; why one officer at the district is the floor and not the ceiling; what having none costs; which of the officer’s duties cut the chain; and how a district names one. There is no quiz. A certificate issues on the last lesson.

By the last lesson a leader can state

Whether OSHA’s Laboratory Standard reaches the institution, and who must designate the officer.
What an officer in each building adds beyond the one the district names.
What having none costs, in verdicts, citations, invoices and evacuations.
What the Chemical Hygiene Plan has to say, and the steps that take a district from no officer to one in every building.