Introduction

The Instructor's Guide for Environmental Health Issues is to acquaint instructors with some of the many issues facing tenants relating to their family’s environmental health.

The program will focus on:

• An overview of the many regulations impacting tenant housing
• The many possible types of exposure to various materials and conditions
• The causes of these exposures
• The possible effects of the exposure
• The symptoms of exposure to look for
• The consequences and possible penalties for tenants of non-compliance with the regulations or standards
• The responsibilities for both landlords and city government
• The tenants responsibilities
• How to prevent environmental health issues from occurring, and to:
• Discuss various issues relating to environmental health in terms of where we are now, where we want to be, and what they can do to make this happen.

Instructors will learn how this seminar, funded by the New York City’s City Council, is geared towards providing educational assistance to owners and/or building managers about the dangers of environmental hazards found in the home.

The curriculum focuses on those hazards that have the most deleterious effect on children’s health, such as lead-based paint, mold, mildew and roach and rodent infestation. Practical advice is given on how to reduce or eliminate the hazards mentioned above. Methods of funding remediation efforts are also discussed in these seminars.

Lessons

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