COMPLIANCE GUIDELINES

1. COMPLIANCEGUIDELINES

2. NJ School Regulations • NJ Schools Laws and Regulations 6A:23 and 26 all have a big part in school planning and budgeting. • But we have other Laws and Regulations that we must know and understand when it comes to Maintenance and Operations of our Schools.

3. Safety and Risk • Employee and Student safety is very much a big part of a schools daily operations. • If fact, we need to provide a safe and environmental friendly atmosphere throughout our building and on the grounds for all people using our facilities.

4. UNDERSTANDING it ALL! • You must know Environment and Code Compliance Regulations that impact your buildings. • You have to keep occupants safe, especially CHILDREN. • When we can have our buildings safe for children, all other occupants will fall under that same umbrella of protection. • How do you keep on top of all those Laws and Regulations?

5. Know and Understand the BIG 93

6. Still Growing • The New Jersey School Buildings and Grounds Association has a list of Code and Environmental Compliance issues that must be dealt with DAILY in our schools. We call them the BIG 93! • It was just a short number of years ago that this list started off as the Big 50. • It has grown over these few short years due to changes in the Laws in NJ and thru Federal OSHA Regulations.

7. They are developed by the State of New Jersey and Federal OSHA to protect employees, students and all other occupants in our buildings.

8. Good Administrators need to be aware of the laws that govern employee and occupant safety. Lets get started……

9. NEPTUNE, N.J. – 2014 • Twenty-eight children and two adults accidentally drank bleach at a day care center in Jersey City. • “Somebody made a mistake and they were trying to give the children water but then they realized it was mixed with bleach.” • Hospital officials said the water and bleach solution used for cleaning may have mistakenly been placed in the container normally used to hold drinking water.

10. Do you really KNOW? • Do you really know what types of chemicals are being stored and used in your buildings? • Do you know the difference between special health chemical categories; • Do you know what a; • Mutagen is? • a Teratogen? • What about a Carcinogen?

11. In the Know • You may not have the answers to those questions but someone on your staff better know! • Someone in your Administration has to be in charge of making sure all hazardous chemicals are inventoried, classified and stored properly. • Even if you have a Sub-Contractor doing work in your buildings, you need to know what chemicals they have to keep people safe.

12. Watching that chemical cloud leave your building along with screaming children is too late to understand the Laws.

13. Surprising products found in schools. • To keep people safe, we need to understand the products that are in our building. • We need to read Safety Data Sheets and Labels on these products. • There are surprising and unknown hazards in our buildings and we need to know where they are and how to deal with them safely.

14. NAME THAT PRODUCT?(Info taken from actual SDS for a product found in most schools) • Product is flammable. • May produce hazardous decomposition products. • Contains Methylcyclohexane. • If vapors are deliberately inhaled, the following symptoms may occur: respiratory irritation, dizziness, drowsiness, headache, nausea, unconsciousness, convulsions, cardiac sensitization, coma, and death. • Methylcyclohexane (108-87-2) • Mustard Oil (57-06-7) • Naphtha (8032-32-4) • Fragrances • No precautions under normal use conditions.

15. LIQUID PAPER • Inhalant abuse is purposely breathing in or sniffing common household products to "get high." • Almost any aerosol or liquid solvent can be used as an inhalant.

16. More abuse in schools….. • A 13 year-old boy was inhaling fumes from cleaning fluid and became ill a few minutes afterwards. He died 24 hours after the incident. • An 11 year-old boy collapsed in a public bathroom. A butane cigarette lighter fuel container and a plastic bag were found next to him. He also had bottles of typewriter correction fluid in his pocket. CPR failed to revive him, and he was pronounced dead.

17. Hazardous Chemicals are everywhere. • You must know how to understand the use of these chemicals safely! • Why are they in our buildings? • Are there other alternatives? The first step in using chemicals safely is to recognize those materials that may be hazardous to occupant health or physical safety.

18. Myth #1 "Custodians and maintenance workers don't need professional development."

19. Building Guardians • Custodian and maintenance employees are "guardians of the school environment.“ • Their workloads continue to grow as new technology and equipment requires new skills, increased duties and responsibilities.

20. Support professionals should know how their jobs impact student learning, no matter what the title.

21. Their Need to Know • They need to know the hazards they face daily while doing their jobs. • They need to understand the hazards of the cleaning chemicals they use. • Knowing where all asbestos is located in the building and how to deal with it safely. • Being informed and trained is very important for the safety and well being of all building occupants.

22. 8 Safety items to Update. • Emergency Eye Wash and Showers • 3D Printer Safety • Air Hand Dryer Safety • OSHA Silica Standard • OSHA Fall Safety • Alyssa’s Law • Carbon Monoxide Detector Response • Employee Safety Training Requirements

23. Emergency Washes

24. EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT • Emergency eyewashes and showers often go unused. • It’s important to test these devices regularly to help ensure they will function properly in an emergency. • The ANSI Z358.1-2014 standard establishes a universal minimum performance and use requirements for all eyewash and drench shower equipment used for the treatment of the eyes, face, and body of a person who has been exposed to hazardous materials and chemicals.

25. Performance Requirements • Emergency equipment shall be activated weekly. • Each piece of equipment is required to be activated.) • Activation shall ensure flow of water to the head(s) of the device. • This would be both the eyewash or eye/face wash head, as well as the showerhead.

26. Proper maintenance and WEEKLY testing is necessary to ensure that emergency drench showers and eyewash stations are functioning safely and properly.

27. Training • All employees who may be exposed to hazardous, particulate, or corrosive materials shall be instructed on the proper operation of eyewash & drench shower equipment. • In addition, ALL EMPLOYEES MUST BE MADE AWARE OF THE LOCATIONS OF FLUSHING STATIONS.

28. 3D Printer Safety

29. 3D PRINTER SAFETYPollution & Health Risk • As with all new technologies used in a school environment, educators need to understand the technology from a health and safety point of view. • Many of these users will use the printer in office settings, on personal working desks and in classrooms at all grade levels. • Both physical and chemical hazards arecreated in products through 3D printing.

30. 3D PRINTERS CAN EMIT VOCS EVEN AT TEMPS BELOW THE PRINTING TEMPERATURE.

31. VOC’s • 3D printers can produce Volatile Organic Compounds or Particles (VOC’s or VOP’s) during the printing process. • These particles are very fine and air-borne. • These lightweight particles become airborne and can therefore be breathed in by those nearby.

32. SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS • Enclose printers so children can’t get their fingers at the hot extruder. • Some printers will automatically stop when the doors open. • Some printers will shield the hot extruder from children’s fingers.

33. 3D Printer

34. Your best option is to install an external ventilation exhaust system.

35. Air Hand Dryer Safety

36. NEW STUDY • A new study from the University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University showed that hot-air dryers may be acting like bacterial bombs, shooting loads of spores from bathroom air directly onto your hands. • Researchers placed germ-collecting plates in 36 men’s and women’s bathrooms across the University of Connecticut’s School of Medicine facilities. • THE RESULTS WERE STAGGERING — IF NOT ALSO SICKENING.

37. NEW RESEARCH • This new research squares with several recent studies that show the handy hot-air and jet dryers may be one of the highest sources of bacterial contamination in a public restroom. • A study in the Journal of Hospital Infection compared jet dryers, warm-air dryers, and paper towels in a simulation of poorly washed and contaminated hands.

38. NEW RESEARCH… • People who used jet dryers had 4.5 times more bacteria on their hands than people who used a warm-air dryer, and 27 times more bacteria than people who used paper towels.

39. “These results indicate that many kinds of bacteria, including potential pathogens and spores, can be deposited on hands exposed to bathroom hand dryers, and that spores could be dispersed throughout buildings and deposited on hands by hand dryers,” the study’s researchers wrote.

40. 2 SEPARATE BUILDINGS 2 SEPARATE BATHROOMS Notice spores growth and dirt below air outlet on tile walls!

41. OSHA New Silica Standard

42. The “NEW ASBESTOS!” • Crystalline Silica Dust (CSD) is being touted as the “NEW ASBESTOS”. • Respirable crystalline silica is the leading cause of silicosis, the most common occupational lung disease in the world. Crystalline Silica has been classified as a human lung carcinogen.

43. Silica Exposure Control Program • The OSHA Silica Exposure Control Program describes the hazards associated with silica dust, outlines the steps to ensure employees who work with or around silica are not exposed to hazardous levels of silica dust, and provides procedures to minimize exposures for common silica related work duties. • Silica exposure can come from handling sand, cutting concrete and abrasive blasting.

44. 2 OSHA RCS Standards we must know and understand. • 29 CFR 1926.1153 Construction • 29 CFR 1910.1053 General Industry Maritime

45. Need to know…. • We need to know both Standards to protect occupants in our schools. • Plus, to make sure Contractors coming to our building do their jobs right and in accordance with the Standard. • When Contractors don’t do the job safely, our building occupants, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN, are exposed to dangers and health hazards.

46. Who is at risk? • Workers in the following occupations are at risk for developing Silicosis. • Highway bridge construction and repair. • BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, DEMOLITION AND MAINTENANCE. • Abrasive blasting • Masonry work.

47. Training Requirements • Respirable Crystalline Silicacourse is required initially and annually for all employees exposed to silica at or above the action level. • It is recommend initially for any employee working with silica or silica containing products.

48. Fall Protection

49. Walking-Working Surfaces and Personal Protective Equipment • Fall Protection Systems • Final Rule revised and updated OSHA's General Industry Standards on Walking-Working Surfaces to prevent and reduce workplace slips, trips, and falls. • It added requirements on the design, performance, and use of personal fall protection systems. 

50. OSHA Fall Protection • Working at elevated heights presents hazards that need to be addressed and controlled to prevent serious injury or death.  • The OSHA Fall Protection Program highlights the main components pertaining to fall protection for workers who may work at heights over four feet. • This includes working on ladders and roofs.