DESCRIPTION
Health, Safety and Environmental Management Assistance (HSEM)
Region Nine School Districts of South Central Minnesota contract with South Central Service Cooperative to provide on-site regional health, safety and environmental management assistance services to all school districts.
These services assist districts in identifying, prioritizing and scheduling health and safety capital projects and in the development of written programs. Particular emphasis shall be provided to assist in the planning, management, monitoring and improvement of Indoor Air Quality.
These programs help districts to:
- Identify and advise program element contact persons
- Identify and prioritize health and safety concerns per Department of Children, Families, and Learning Health and Safety policy letter
- Plan the scheduling of remediation of health and safety hazards
- Monitor schools' programs to prevent redevelopment of the hazard and discover new hazards
2011 Health and Safety Policy Letter (Acrobat PDF)
Safety and Health Program Assessment Checklist (Acrobat PDF)
Attachment 10 Performance Criteria (Microsoft Word doc)
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South Central Service Cooperative contracts with the
Institute for Environmental Assessment (IEA) to provide districts access to practical, cost-sensitive environmental engineering counsel and worker protection services.
The corporate headquarters and main laboratory are located in Brooklyn Park, MN. A satellite office is located in Mankato, with local consultants that provide ongoing environmental management services, and access to control services, drawing from a staff of over 70 professionals, and 30 consultants who provide ongoing input in specialized areas.
At its inception, the Institute's mission was to find real-world, applicable patterns for addressing environmental risk and regulation. It has achieved and continues to excel in meeting that challenge, with both academic and regulatory acceptance for its often innovative approaches toward environmentally-sensitive sustainable development.