Why does a school need a Chemical Hygiene Officer?
The Case for a Chemical Hygiene Officer in Every School is a free online course for leaders of educational institutions: superintendents, principals, board members and science department heads. It answers one question with evidence read from the agencies and studies that hold it: why does this school need one?
Eight short lessons, most with a video from the agency or society that owns the subject. What the states found when they 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. How a district names one.
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 from no officer to one in every building
How the course works
- Free, online, at any pace
- Eight lessons with videos from OSHA, the Chemical Safety Board, the CDC and the American Chemical Society
- No quiz; a certificate issues on the last lesson
