Interventions

The Work Related Asthma Prevention Program is piloting the California's Cleaning for Asthma Safe Schools (CLASS) project.  Click here to learn more about this initiative

Publications

Removing Graffiti Safely (12 page booklet, 2003)
www.dhs.ca.gov/ohb/OHSEP/graffiti.pdf

Wood Dust and Occupational Asthma (8 page booklet, January 2004)
www.dhs.ca.gov/ohb/OHSEP/wooddust.pdf

Prevention of Occupational Asthma in California (4 pages, June 2002) www.dhs.ca.gov/ohb/OHSEP/asthmanewsjune02.pdf

Surveillance of work-related asthma in selected U.S. states using surveillance guidelines for state health departments ? California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993-1995. MMWR, 48-Nos. SS-3:1-20, 1999. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss4803a1.htm 

Henneberger PK, Derk SJ, Davis L, Tumpowsky C, Reilly MJ, Rosenman KD, Schill DP, Valiante D, Flattery J, Harrison R, Reinisch F, Filios MS, Tift B. Work-related Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome Cases from Surveillance in Selected U.S. States. J Occup Environ Med, 45(4):360-368, 2003.

Rosenman KD, Reilly MJ, Schill DP, Valiente D, Flattery J, Harrison R, Reinisch F, Pechter E, Davis L, Tumpowsky C, Filios M. Cleaning Products and Work-Related Asthma. J Occup Environ Med, 45(5):556-563, 2003.

Goe SK, Henneberger PK, Reilly MJ, Rosenman KD, Schill DP, Valiante D, Flattery J, Harrison J, Reinisch F, Tumpowsky C, Filios MS. Descriptive Study of Work Aggravated Asthma. Occup Environ Med, 61(6):512-517, 2004.

Pechter E, Davis LK, Tumpowsky C, Flattery J, Harrison R, Reinisch F, Reilly MJ, Rosenman KD, Schill DP, Valiante D, Filios M. Work-Related Asthma among Health Care Workers: Surveillance Data from California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993-1997. Am J Ind Med, 47(3):265-275, 2005.

Flattery J, Davis L, Rosenman KD, Harrison R, Lyon-Callo S, Filios M. The Proportion of Self-Reported Asthma Associated with Work in Three States: Califonia, Massachusetts, and Michigan, 2001. J Asthma, 43(3):213-218, 2006.

Mazurek JM, Filios M, Willis R, Rosenman KD, Reilly MJ, McGreevy K, Schill DP, Valiante D, Pechter E, Davis L, Flattery J, Harrison R. Work-Related Asthma in the Educational Services Industry: California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993-2000. Am J Ind Med, 51(1):47-59, 2008.

Quint J, Beckett WS, Campleman SL, Sutton P, Prudhomme J, Flattery J, Harrison R, Cowan B, Kreutzer R. Primary Prevention of Occupational Asthma: Identifying and Controlling Exposures to Asthma-Causing Agents. Am J Ind Med, 51(7):477-491, 2008. 

Resources

CLASS conducted a webinar on "How to pilot a green cleaning program in your school district." It can be viewed here . 

Download and article written about the CLASS project for the Coalition for Adequate School Housing,  Article on Cleaning for Asthma Safe Schools

Work-related asthma
Green Schools 

Strategic Plan for Asthma in California

Purchasing safer cleaning products and disinfectants:

Greenseal

US EPA
Safer cleaning and disinfecting fact sheets and guidelines 
Environmental Working Group cleaning in schools report