Having a Chemical Hygiene Officer Specialist or Lead in each school building just makes sense from a risk management and safety perspective across the USA.
Science Safety, Dr. Kenneth Roy
Currently Dr. Roy is the Chief Science Safety Compliance Adviser/Chief Safety Blogger at the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA); and the Safety Compliance Officer for the National Science Education Leadership Association (NSELA); He has published 13 science and STEM lab safety books and manuals and authored over 800 safety articles in professional journals and associations including NSTA, NSELA, CSSS, ITEEA and more.
Author Posts
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Lab Safety What School Administrators Need to Know
8 minutes readLegal information on OSHA Regulations, Chemical Hygiene Plans and lab safety regulations for school administrators and lab supervisors in science education.
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Lab Safety Requirements and School Administrators
6 minutes readLab Safety in schools is a real concern from a risk management perspective, and this article explores scenarios from actual science departments to illustrate.
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Traditional and digital dissections allow students to gain valuable STEAM knowledge with some advantages and disadvantages using each method.
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Learn to calculate Occupancy Load in your STEAM instructional space for class sizes and schedules based on legal standards and better professional practices.
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Schools can definitely be fined for non-compliance with legal safety standards and not using accepted better professional safety practices in STEAM Safety.
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STEAM Safety Advice for New Teachers featuring legal safety standards and better professional safer practices. Must read for all educators!
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Safer Ed: Necessary Lab Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
2 minutes readIn this episode of Safer Ed, Dr. Ken Roy emphasizes the significance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in creating a safer classroom environment.
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Legal Liability in Schools with Dr. Ken Roy – Safer...
5 minutes readSafer Ed Episode 1 – show host and a guest discuss school safety and the legal liability schools take on across the curriculum and specifically science safety.