DRAFT School Newsletter Many new families have moved into our school community and may not be familiar with our Scent Smart program. Our school has students and staff who experience symptoms such as headaches, asthma, and much worse, when they breathe even small amounts of fragrance chemicals. Some are… read more →
THE ECONOMICS OF GOOD IAQ Tedd Nathanson Senior Engineer, Building Air Quality Public Works and Government Services Canada Ottawa Canada K1A 0M2 [e-mail: NATHANST@PWGSC.GC.CA] INTRODUCTION Salary dollars are the single, most important cost in an office building, being more than two orders of magnitude (100 times) more than energy costs… read more →
Book Review: The Toxic Schoolhouse, edited by Madeleine Kangsen Scammell and Charles Levenstein Updated: 04/11/2014 Book Review: The Toxic Schoolhouse Baywood Publishing Company, Amityville, New York, http://baywood.com, edited by Madeleine Kangsen Scammell and Charles Levenstein, 2014. Parents should be able to assume that school buildings are healthy places for children, but… read more →
The following article was featured in the Winter 2001 issue of AVISO, the magazine of the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union. CASLE recognizes that articles such as this can raise the level of knowledge about indoor air quality and can help prevent harm to teachers’ health and well being. Sick Schools… read more →
SCENT RESEARCH: Sample Abstracts from Research Articles Relevant to the Perfume Issue 1997 1 – Lorig TS, EEG and ERP studies of low-level odor exposure in normal subjects. Toxicology and Industrial Health, July-Oct. 1994, vol 10, No.4/5, 579-586. “Evidence from four EEG/ERP experiments is presented. Findings of these experiments consistently… read more →
Toxic Chemicals in Fragrances Acetaldehyde – found in perfume, dyes, fruit and fish preservatives, and flavor fragrances, which produces a fruity odor. It is a suspected animal carcinogen and has been classified in Group B2 as a probable human carcinogen of low carcinogenic hazard by the EPA. It can cause… read more →
Characteristics of Schools That Can Affect Indoor Environment Quality For existing schools: We can better understand the causes of school indoor environment problems and also better understand some of the barriers to getting things fixed or changed if we understand the factors that make schools unique. For new schools:… read more →
Mould and School Indoor Air Quality This document is intended for school administrators, staff, parents, students, and anyone concerned with mould problems in schools. Indoor mould overgrowth can be a common problem in schools, often with serious health concerns. Some individuals are more sensitive to mould exposure than others. Whether… read more →