The Mass DEP announces School Chemical Management Training

The MassDEP announces School Chemical Management training. Please refer to the attachment for further guidance on training and registration procedures. ********************************************

Coming Out of the Closet - Managing School Chemicals from Cradle to Grave If there was ever a situation where the adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" applies, it would be to chemical safety in schools. Properly managing the chemicals in your school chemistry lab, facilities department, art department (and others) can limit a school's liability, prevent a fire or explosion and help avoid a costly clean-up. Register today for MassDEP's School Chemical Management Training For the last several years MassDEP's Municipal Sustainability Grant Program has offered communities assistance in establishing a sustainable chemical management plan for their schools.


As part of the grant program we offer a four-hour training session on school chemical management, which is open to all interested municipalities, regardless of their grant status. If you apply for this grant next year, and are awarded, your municipality will need to form an Environmental Health and Safety team and send at least three people to this training. Applicants who have already fulfilled the training requirement will be favorably evaluated during the grant review and award process. When we offered this training earlier in the month registration filled in less than a week and we had to turn people away! This will be our last training for the fiscal year and will again be held at the Public Safety Building in Natick. Who: Principals or Asst.

Principals, Business Managers, Science Department Heads, Science teachers, Art Department Heads, Directors of Vocational Education, Facilities Managers, Head Custodians, Fire Chiefs and Fire Prevention Officers. When: Tuesday June 24, 2008, 9:00am to 1:00pm Where: Public Safety Building 22 East Central Street Natick, MA RSVP: Registration is limited to 50 people. To register please send an email to: Mercedes.Mitchell@state.ma.us. The School Chemical Management grant, valued at $12,200, provides a municipality with up to $5000 toward the cleanout of obsolete and unneeded chemical stock-piles and up to 90 hours of assistance from a consultant specializing in school chemical management. For more information about the grant program, a two-page fact sheet about the program can be found at http://www.mass.gov/dep/service/compliance/schlchem.htm