Hi Burton-
Thanks for the plug for the new tool! For anyone interested, our
regional contact has sent the following announcement:
EPA has added two new dates for webcasts introducing the Healthy School
Environments Assessment Tool ("HealthySEAT"). These are April 6, 2006
and May 4, 2006. Each day the webcast runs from 1:30pm-3:00 pm. For
information on how to sign onto these webcasts, please see the URL
below.
HealthySEAT brings together all of EPA's regulatory and voluntary
programs for schools into a single, free software tool that public,
private, and tribal school systems can use, if they wish, to establish
and manage comprehensive school facility assessment programs.
HealthySEAT is designed to be customized by states and school systems to
reflect their own priorities and needs. The software will make it easier
for school systems to access and implement EPA programs as well as track
the status of facility conditions across all of their schools.
Here in New England, NH DES is partnering with several groups in order
to customize this tool to make it NH specific, and then offer statewide
trainings.
http://www.epa.gov/schools/healthyseat/webconferences.html
Gina Snyder
US EPA - New England
1 Congress Street, Suite 1100 (SPP)
Boston MA 02114-2023
Phone: (617) 918-1837
Fax: (617) 918-0837
http://www.epa.gov/region1/assistance/univ/
Paper is a valuable resource; please don't print this message unless
necessary.
Burton Hamner
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great new env mgmt software
The US EPA Healthy Schools project has released a free software program
for school district assessment and management of facility-level toxics
and pollution issues. I have been testing it and it actually works just
fine for **any organization** to do facility environmental assessments,
and organize action plans. Instead of “district”, think “multi-location
corporation”. It has a unique and very cool report/checklist generator
for going the extra step to a functioning manual and system. The
categories and subcategories can be added to and edited, and come
pre-loaded with information and resources on 200+ topics. So you can
expand it to full multi media environmental / sustainability management.
And it’s free – that makes it the best value facility environmental
management software I have ever seen. Despite being free it is really
very good software.
http://www.epa.gov/schools/healthyseat/index.html
Please pass this on to interested parties and networks.
Burton Hamner
www.cleanerproduction.com