Visual Arts Safety For Students Pathway

If you teach students in an art classroom program that “produces” something, in other words a piece of artwork such as a painting, sculpture, jewelry etc students should understand that clean up materials, paints/solvents, metal shavings or process rinse waters may fall into the hazardous waste management category. In this pathway you will learn about risks, hazards, and safer practices in painting, ceramics, photography, jewelry, printing and printmaking, metalworking, welding, and woodworking, as well as the associated buildings, studios and storage space, are some activities that commonly use materials that are hazardous and may therefore become regulated waste.