HAZARDOUS MATERIAL

The Board recognizes the necessity of utilizing hazardous materials in the day-to-day operation of school facilities and in supporting education requirements . The Board realizes that with the use of hazardous materials, responsibility must be taken to ensure personal safety and to protect the environment during use, storage and transportation.

Hazardous materials are used and stored in many areas of the school system, from science laboratories and art departments to custodian services and maintenance.

Hazardous materials include any substance or mixture that poses a fire, explosive, reactive or health hazard. Example of materials classed as hazardous are common household cleaning supplies, spray oven cleaners, cleaning solvents, photo chemicals, soldering flux, some ceramic glazes, oils, and gasoline.

The Board, through the superintendent, will cause to be created procedures which address the purchase, storage, handling, transportation, and disposal of hazardous materials for school facilities and operations, including instructional areas. Emergency response actions and evacuation plans will be coordinated with the procedures.

The procedures will comply with applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations which pertain to safe and proper storage, transportation, and disposal of hazardous materials.

The goal of the procedures will be to have in place an ongoing process by which each location in the system will have a program of identifying and managing hazardous material. Personnel will be encouraged to substitute non-hazardous material for hazardous substances to the extent possible and to minimize the quantities of hazardous substances stored on school property.

Adopted: December 5, 1994