Tell their story. Tell your story.

 ...let us suggest the legislature of Texas set aside a special day each year to be observed as a memorial day on which tribute will be paid to the children and teachers who died in this catastrophe...and to make laws of safety... Our daddies and mothers, as well as the teachers, want to know that when we leave our homes in the morning to go to school, that we will come out safe when our lessons are over.  

Click here to find the complete transcript of 9-year-old fifth grader Carolyn Jones' speech to the Texas Legislature.  Read it out loud in your classroom or at a school event.
 

Who Is Your 2015 Hero?  

Every year to mark the anniversary of the March 18, 1937 Texas School Explosion, I salute heroes whose extraordinary sense of responsibility and leadership is dedicated to protecting students and staff from chemical hazards and unhealthy school conditions.

Send your hero's story, name, and email/phone # by January 15, 2015 to ellie.goldberg@healthy-kids.info

Do you know where your chemicals are?

Resources for Schools!

Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, Washington

Art Chemical Hazards
School Chemical List
Hazardous Chemicals in Schools
Proper Disposal of School Chemicals 

Rehab the Lab

 

Who Is Your 2015 Hero?  

Every year to mark the anniversary of the 

March 18, 1937 Texas School Explosion, I salute heroes whose extraordinary sense of responsibility and leadership is dedicated to protecting students and staff from chemical hazards and unhealthy school conditions.

Send your hero's story, name, and email/phone # by January 15, 2015 to ellie.goldberg@healthy-kids.info

 

Lesson:  Skill + Values = Safety

One of the lessons of the 1937 Texas School Explosion is that those responsible for schools need to be highly qualified for the job of managing complex systems of both buildings and people. 

Who Is Your 2015 Hero? Every year to mark the anniversary of the March 18, 1937 Texas School Explosion, I salute heroes whose extraordinary sense of responsibility and leadership is dedicated to protecting students and staff from chemical hazards and unhealthy school conditions.

Each Healthy Kids Hero 2004-2014 is extraordinary for a combination of personal qualities and qualifications beyond credentials, a commitment to a safe quality environment, and an exceptional sense of responsibility for excellence.  
  
Bring the Lessons of 1937 to Your School

Send your hero's story, name, and email/phone #   
to ellie.goldberg@healthy-kids.info

Deadline: January 15, 2015

Rocket scientist's idea could put an end to texting while driving 

On May 8, 2008, Dave Sueper was driving to a business meeting when he was struck and killed by a distracted teenage driver who had run a red light. Scott Tibbitts, a chemical engineer and space entrepreneur who made motors for NASA, was the person Sueper was scheduled to meet that tragic morning, and he was deeply affected when he learned about the accident. Like Sueper, he was a father of two, and as an engineer he became fixated on finding a way to prevent another death from distracted driving...  

See more: Video story Yahoo News, Katie Couric @ https://news.yahoo.com/katie-couric-interviews-katasi-ceo-about-texting-and-driving-195250260.html 

So that it never happens again....

The dangers of "willful blindness" 

Margaret Heffernan,TedxDanubia, March 2013 

Management Thinker, the former CEO of five businesses, Margaret Heffernan explores the all-too-human thought patterns — like conflict avoidance and selective blindness — that lead managers and organizations astray. Full bio

14:38 

Gayla Benefield was just doing her job — until she uncovered an awful secret about her hometown that meant its mortality rate was 80 times higher than anywhere else in the U.S. But when she tried to tell people about it, she learned an even more shocking truth: People didn’t want to know. In a talk that’s part history lesson, part call-to-action, Margaret Heffernan demonstrates the danger of "willful blindness" and praises ordinary people like Benefield who are willing to speak up. (Filmed at TEDxDanubia.) 

...not to be blind, not to be silent... 

 

Dare to disagree, Margaret Heffernan, TEDGlobal 2012

12:56

The truth won't set us free — until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

CHEMICAL DISASTER IN LA PORTE, TX

To: Reporters and editors covering chemical disaster in La Porte, Texas

From: National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH)

Backgrounder: Chemical Disaster in La Porte, Texas

Four workers died at a DuPont insecticide plant in La Porte, Texas after 100 pounds of the deadly chemical methyl mercaptan leaked inside the facility.  The La Porte factory, like other DuPont facilities, has been cited numerous times for environmental and health and safety violations.

Following the death of a worker at a DuPont chemical plant in West Virginia in 2010, for example the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) found “numerous safety deficiencies” at the operation.  This CSB video re-enacts the incident, in which a worker lost his life after exposure to phosgene, a deadly gas that was used as a chemical weapon during World War I. 

... But the company that owns the plant, DuPont, has been making millions selling discredited “Employee Safety Consulting” to other companies for years. 

 
www.coshnetwork.org