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- NYSUT, state support miner safety effort
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- Resolutions call for end to injustices
- Cecil Roberts: 'Join a Union!' (VIDEO)
- Health & Safety Briefs: Bully down
- SUNY campus' violence plan found incomplete
- What the health care act means to working families
- Health & Safety Briefs: Cutting calories
- Education, awareness for Workers Memorial Day
- Health and Safety Briefs: Try 24/7 Let's Go!
- Family and Consumer Sciences helps students navigate a constantly changing society
- Making Medicare info more accessible for all
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Building Minds, Minding Buildings
The AFT launched its Building Minds, Minding Buildings initiative in 2006. At its heart is the idea that the school environment cannot be separated from the academic agenda.
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Health and Safety Fact Sheets
- Cleaning for healthy schools and infection control
- Pandemic flu planning in K-12 and higher education
- Preparing for a Pandemic – What You Can Do
- Higher ed campus security fact sheet
- NYS Right-To-Know Law and OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (PDF)
- Health Hazards of Computer Use (PDF)
- Bloodborne Pathogens (PDF)
- Bus Garage Ventilation
- Indoor Air Pollution
- Infectious Diseases in Schools (PDF)
- Latex Allergies
- Mold
- Safety and Health Committees
- School Security
- Workers Compensation


