In the Toolkit are free educational materials: PowerPoint presentations for general audiences and for custodial workers new to green cleaning; tip sheets for parents, teachers, vendors, and school checklists. Also free, a Cleaning for Healthy Schools poster, a poster from the National Association of School Nurses, guidance from NIOSH, model state/district policies, cost reports, and, for a healthier home, how to make your own nontoxic cleaning products for home use.
For detailed reports on greenwashing and safer disinfectants and sanitizers, and other topics, visit the Healthy Products Toolkit.
Posters
- Cleaning for Healthy Schools
- National Association of Nurses Flyer
- NIOSH – Protect Yourself: Cleaning Chemicals and Your Health
Power Points
Start-Up Tools for Schools
- Three Things You Can Do to Get Started
- What You Need to Know to Start a Cleaning for Healthy Schools Program
- Tips for School Staff
- Cleaning for Health, Tips for Success: Vendors
- School-Based Committees and Cleaning for Healthy Schools
- How Does Your School Add Up: Cleaning for Healthy Schools Checklist, 2014
- Building Evaluation: Green Cleaning Check List, 2014
- FAQ: The Cost of Certified “Green” Cleaners
Other Resources for Cleaning and Disinfecting
Disinfectants are EPA-registered pesticides
- Model Fragrance-Free Policy
- New York State’s Green Cleaning Program
- Cleaning Schools Effectively the Safe and Healthy Way-CT of Public Health
- Healthy Schools Network’s GUIDE TO GREEN CLEANING: Practices and Products for Schools
- CT DPH: The Nurse’s Office: Cleaning the Safe and Healthy Way, Guidance for School Nurses
- CA OSHA: Certification Standards Help Employers and Cleaners Buy Safer Cleaning Products
- Considerations for State Model Bill Text, 2014
- Non-Toxic Cleaning at Home
- Green Cleaning Can Help Schools Safely Open: February 2021 School Business Affairs magazine, reprinted Business Officials International (ASBO), 2021
Disinfecting
- Disinfecting and Sanitizing in Child Care Centers: Model Recommendations from San Francisco Asthma, 2012
- Healthy Schools Network’s Disinfectant Wipes Guide
- Green Seal Safer Disinfecting
- Disinfecting & Schools: Panel Presentations and Discussion Products and Equipment for Indoor Health, We Network, August 28, 2020