Collaborate, Empower, Take Action: Why IAQ Buy-In Is Critical

EPA Indoor Environments Division sent this bulletin at 03/08/2017 10:00 AM EST

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View EPA’s On-Demand Professional Training Webinars to Gain Buy-In From School Personnel!

Here’s what a school district representative has to say about these online trainings:

Shawna Cragun, Director, Custodial Services Administration, Davis Public School District, Utah

Acquiring the knowledge—
“I thought I had a good understanding of IAQ, yet in every webinar, the presenter has given at least one more thing I want to add to my program. Before attending the webinar series, we had several segmented programs related to IAQ management, which were maintained by different departments. Now we collaboratively meet and work with everyone who is involved with IAQ management and have created one master plan for everyone to use. Before, we were good at assessing and remediating IAQ issues, and now, we are continually improving our prevention practices. In addition, the knowledge we have gained has given us much more validity.”

To learn more, view Healthy Schools, Healthy Students: Taking Action to Improve IAQ in Your School District.

Converting knowledge into action—
“The knowledge we have gained has helped to empower us to make the case with teachers and others to improve buy-in. As an example, explaining how air fresheners aren’t allowed because they can trigger asthma has helped teachers understand it’s about children’s health.”

To learn more, view Making the Case for Environmental Health, Academic Performance and High-Performing Facilities.

“Buy-in from everyone is critical to a successful IAQ management program. To gain buy-in, I used the webinars to provide tailored education unique to each staff member by showing specific clips from the webinars. In addition, if a staff member had a specific question, I was able to refer to the webinars and add validity to my answer because this is what EPA was showing in their webinar.”

To learn more, view Better Together: Gaining Buy-In for Optimal Ventilation.

DID YOU KNOW?

After viewing the IAQ Knowledge-to-Action Professional Training Webinar Series, 70 percent of the webinars’ attendees thought their knowledge of IAQ management best practices and technical solutions had increased!

 

Get started—Build a solid IAQ management foundation. The IAQ Master Class Professional Training Webinar Series comprises ten 1-hour technical, Web-based trainings that focus on building the capacity of a school or school district to start, improve or sustain an IAQ program. Each webinar includes featured speakers and unbiased technical experts and shows examples of EPA guidance being used in schools and school districts.
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Put your knowledge into action. The IAQ Knowledge-to-Action Professional Training Webinar Series comprises four 1-hour technical, core-competency, Web-based trainings that demonstrate how the knowledge gained in the IAQ Master Class Professional Training Webinar Series can be translated into actions that improve or sustain an IAQ management program within your school or school district.

 

These webinars will help you learn how to—

Learn from technical experts, industry leaders and model school districts during these free, on-demand 1-hour webinars. A 30-minute mentoring Q&A session follows each webinar.

Gain recognition for your knowledge acquisition and commitment to action by receiving a certificate of completion after viewing each webinar.

Questions?
EPA offers free IAQ Tools for Schools resources—including the School IAQ Assessment Mobile App—to help schools maintain a healthy indoor environment by identifying, correcting and preventing IAQ problems. Learn more about the IAQ Tools for Schools guidance and access other valuable school environmental health resources at www.epa.gov/iaq-schools.

If you have any questions about the IAQ Tools for Schools guidance, please contact the IAQ Tools for Schools Connector Coordinator at iaqschools@epa.gov.