Protecting Our Children
Information on how to protect children from toxins, the sun, lead, and
other potential environmental health threats. Find out about the Office
of Children's Health Protection and read their useful Tips
to Protect Children from Environmental Threats
The Air They Breathe
An Introduction
to Indoor Air Quality - This document identifies indoor air
quality problems, and offers solutions for improving the air quality in
your home and school with pollutant-specific information.
Indoor Air
Quality in Schools - Because children are especially susceptible
to air pollution, air quality in schools is of particular concern. Proper
maintenance of indoor air is more than a "quality" issue; it includes
safety and good management of our investment in the students, staff, and
facilities. Find publications, "Tools for Schools" action kits and answers
to frequently asked questions.
Asbestos
- This document discusses what asbestos is and the health affects of exposure.
Asthma and
Indoor Environments - EPA's role in asthma education and
prevention.
Clear Your
Home Of Asthma Triggers - Information about five common asthma
triggers found in homes and what you can do to reduce you and your child's
exposure to them.
Secondhand Smoke
- This site discusses the health risks to children and adults from secondhand
smoke with particular regard to immediate and longer term health effects.
Lead
- This site discusses the ways in which people are exposed to lead and
precautions they can take to reduce the risk of exposure.
Asthma
Home Environment Checklist - (PDF,
8 pp., 259K) To help incorporate environmental controls into home
visit programs, EPA developed an Asthma
Home Environment Checklist.
This checklist contains questions and action steps to assist in the identification
and mitigation of environmental asthma triggers commonly found in and
around the home.
The Water They Drink
Actions
You Can Take to Reduce Lead in Your Drinking Water - This
publication offers information and solutions to many common questions
about how you can reduce lead in your drinking water.
Children and
Drinking Water Standards - Should you be concerned about the tap
water that your children are drinking? This booklet (EPA 815-K-99-001)
explains how national standards contribute to drinking water safety, and
will help you make informed, reasonable choices about the water you and
your children drink.
Toxins/Poisons
Ten Tips to Protect
Children from Pesticide and Lead Poisonings around the Home -
These simple steps can help you save children from environmental hazards
around the home.
* Spanish
Version
Pesticides
and Child Safety - General guidelines for protecting children
from pesticides and recommendations for treating accidental pesticide
poisoning.
Protect Your
Family and Yourself from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning- Knowing
the symptoms of Carbon Monoxide poisoning and immediate first aid techniques
provided in this document can save your life and the life of your family.
Using
Insect Repellents Safely - Suggests ways of choosing insect
repellents and applying them.
From the Sun
Sun Protection
for Kids - This document discusses precautions that can help
you assist children to avoid ultraviolet (UV)-related health problems.
Ultraviolet
Index : An Overview - Do you know that a few simple precautions
can help protect you and your children from skin cancer and serious eye
injury?
Sunwise Schools Program
- This program provides materials to help teachers educate students in
K-6 about protecting themselves from overexposure to the sun's ultraviolet
radiation.
At School
Healthy School Environments - a gateway to on-line resources to help
facility managers, school administrators, architects, design engineers,
school nurses, parents, teachers and staff address environmental health
issues in schools.
Additional Concerned Citizens Web Resources
Water | Prevention,
Pesticides & Toxics | Pesticides
| Solid Waste | Chemical
Emergency | Superfund
| Global
Warming |
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