IMPLEMENTING USE OF CLEANING CHEMICALS SAFER PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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Implementing Safer Cleaning Chemicals Safer For
People And The Environment www.ENVIRO-SOLUTION
.com Resource Center Presentations
Reports Other Helpful Sites
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OUTLINE

• Did You Know The Health Hazards Of Traditional
  Cleaning Chemicals?
• Overview Of Current Situation Of Green Cleaning
  Chemicals
• To Be Proven More Environmentally Sound
• To Be Proven Safer For People
• Key Criteria of Green Seal and Environmental
  Choice Programs
• Commonly Used Hazardous Cleaning Chemicals
• Cleaning Tenders/Bids Product Guidelines
• Qs As

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ENVIRO-SOLUTIONS HOME PAGE www.enviro-solution.c
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ENVIRO-SOLUTIONS RESOURCE CENTRE
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ENVIRO-SOLUTIONS RESOURCE CENTRE Other Helpful
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ENVIRO-SOLUTIONS RESOURCE CENTRE Technical
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INTRODUCTIONS

• Overview of Enviro-Solutions
• Overview of Presentation Schedule
• Objectives of Presentation
• Knowledge
• Workshop Format
• Qs As

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1. DID YOU KNOW?
HAZARDS OF TRADITIONAL CLEANERS
7 Cause Cancer, Ozone Depletion, or Global
Warming
56 Contain Ingredients that can Cause Blindness,
Severe Skin Damage, Damage to Organs, the Nervous
System or a Developing Fetus
Source Cleaning For Health Products and
Practices for a Safer Indoor Environment Alicia
Culver, Senior Research Associate INFORM, Inc.
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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• Over the past 50 years, the number of synthetic
  chemicals has grown
• From 1.3 billion lbs in 1940
• To 320 billion lbs in 1980
• Of these, approximately 100,000 chemicals are in
  use today
• Approximately 500 have been tested for human
  health concerns
• There are approximately 2000 chemicals introduced
  each year that are not regulated
• We currently reside under that Safe, Until
  Proven Otherwise notion
• Source - http//www.cleaningpro.com/toxic.cfm

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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• A fetus may come into contact with an
  endocrine-disrupting chemical, but problems, such
  as birth defects, infertility and learning
  disabilities may not show up until much later.
• 2-butoxyethanol, a common ingredient in cleaning
  products, is a toxin suspected of causing
  learning disabilities in children as well as
  liver and kidney damage.

Source LEAS www.leas.ca
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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• i) Indirect Contact/Absorption
• Chemicals can be absorbed directly through the
  skin (while sitting or touching items cleaned
  with a product and leaving a residue behind).
• According to a University of Georgia study, 88
  of North Americans carry traces of cleaning
  chemical residue, reflecting the absorption of
  chemicals through the skin.

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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• ii) Direct Contact
• Health Hazards of Janitorial Cleaning Chemicals
• Janitorial workers experience relatively high
  injury rates.
• These chemicals can cause headaches, asthma,
  burns, permanent eye damage, major organ damage
  and even cancer.

Source - Cleaning For Health Products and
Practices for a Safer Indoor Environment Alicia
Culver, Senior Research Associate INFORM, Inc.
- Dr. Bruce Fowler, University of
Maryland.
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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• Health Hazards of Janitorial Cleaning Chemicals
• 6 out of every 100 janitors are injured on the
  job.
• 40 percent of these injuries involve eye
  irritations or burns.
• 36 percent of these injuries involve skin
  irritations or burns.
• 20 percent of these injuries are severe chemical
  burns to the eyes and skin.
• 12 percent of these injuries involve breathing
  chemical fumes.
• Some disinfectants (e.g. quats) can cause
  occupational asthma.

Source Cleaning For Health Products and
Practices for a Safer Indoor Environment Alicia
Culver, Senior Research Associate INFORM, Inc.
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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• Health Hazards of Janitorial Cleaning Chemicals
• 127 janitors died in the US between 1993 and 2001
  as a result of the cleaning products they were
  using.
• The numbers are growing for human health and
  environmental hazards linked with traditional
  cleaning products.

Source US Bureau of Labour Statistics.
Leas www.leas.ca
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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• iii) Indoor Air Quality
• That poor quality indoor air can produce health
  effects in occupants ranging from headaches and
  dry eyes to nausea, dizziness and fatigue and
  the possible development of asthma and multiple
  chemical sensitivity.
• These health effects contribute to increased
  absenteeism/sick days, low moral and decreased
  worker productivity.

Source Cleaning For Health Products and
Practices for a Safer Indoor Environment Alicia
Culver, Senior Research Associate INFORM, Inc.
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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• A study of school districts in the greater
  Washington, D.C. area found that there was a
  direct correlation between Indoor Air Quality and
  both attendance and performance of their
  students.
• Much of the dramatic increase in asthma among
  school-age children is the result of poor quality
  indoor air related to inadequate building
  maintenance, cleaning, and exposure to overly
  toxic cleaning chemicals.

Source Cleaning For Health Products and
Practices for a Safer Indoor Environment Alicia
Culver, Senior Research Associate INFORM, Inc.
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1. DID YOU KNOW?
Health Impacts for Children
Source- The Ashkin Group
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1. DID YOU KNOW?
Behaviors and Attitudes
Source- The Ashkin Group
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1. DID YOU KNOW?
Standard Test Results
Source- The Ashkin Group
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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) occurs when
  a person reacts to chemicals in the environment.
  These chemicals are usually petroleum based. When
  a chemical injury occurs, many persons become
  "Universal Reactors." Universal Reactors have
  symptoms to a significant number of substances in
  all categories of foods, molds, inhalants and
  chemicals.
• Petroleum based chemicals can be found in
  pesticides, synthetic fragrances, cleaning
  products and detergents. These products are in
  use with little testing as to health effects on
  humans due to the popular view that chemicals are
  Safe, Until Proven Toxic.

• Source http//www.ctaz.com/bhima/
• http//www.ourlittleplace.com/mcs.htm
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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• Indoor air quality is ranked among the nations
  top 5 environmental risks. IAQ can be 2 to 100
  times as worse than the outdoors.
• The World Health Organization estimates that 30
  of all buildings experience IAQ problems.

Source Cleaning For Health Products and
Practices for a Safer Indoor Environment Alicia
Culver, Senior Research Associate INFORM, Inc.
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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• RECAP
• Improved cleaning methods and safer cleaning
  chemicals can very positively affect indoor air
  quality, worker and occupant health, and the
  environment.
• Clearly, eliminating the toxic ingredients from
  cleaning products would bring tremendous benefits
  to society in reduced occupational diseases and
  cancer, and cleaner air and water.
• The main reason for going green is for the
  health of yourself, your staff, the people who
  work in your buildings and the visitors to your
  facilities.

NOTE LEAS Labour Environmental Alliance
Society www.leas.ca
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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• WOW Did You Know?

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1. DID YOU KNOW?

• It is a fact traditional cleaning, products are
  hazardous to people and the environment.
• While the degree of hazard varies, you can very
  quickly, easily and profoundly make a difference
  with out impacting performance as well as labour
  and product cost.
• The key is to understand what green is what are
  the variables, considerations, and criteria of
  green and how to know a product is green given
  all the misinformation and spin being
  disseminated by many manufacturers, both large
  and small.

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2. OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION

• Green safer claims and products have been
  around for approximately 10 years.
• Until recently, not grown in significant use.
• Why?

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2. OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION

• NOT GROWN FOR VARIOUS REASONS
• Poor product performance
• Price premium
• Unclear standards/Lack of consistent standards
• Unproven Claims/Mis-information/False Claims
• Complacency and resistance to change
• Lack of understanding by cleaning professionals
• Lack of acceptance by the major manufacturers of
  cleaning chemicals

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2. OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION

• 2003 saw great growth in sales and interest in
  green cleaning products.
• Many view 2003 as the turning point in the
  acceptance and implementation of green
  cleaning.
• Trend will gain momentum.

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2. OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION

• Significant development One standard in Canada
  (Environmental Choice program) and one standard
  in the US (Green Seal) was adapted by several
  large organization, making it easy for purchasers
  to know exactly what constitutes a green
  product.

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2. OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION

• RECENTLY, GREATER ACTIVITY

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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• What are the key criteria to review/consider in
  order to have safer products for the environment?

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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• BIODEGRADABILITY
• It is the decomposition of organic substances
  into carbon dioxide, water and other harmless
  substances.
• Must state
• Definition/Standard used
• At use dilution under load and simulated real
  life situations
• OECD 301-D is one of the highest standards.
• BOD over COD being 60 or greater in a 10 day
  window over a 28 day limit.

BOD Biochemical Oxygen Demand is the oxygen
consumed by the microorganism in the test. COD
Chemical Oxygen Demand also known as the
Theoretical Oxygen Demand (TOD) is the
theoretical oxygen demand to completely
mineralize the chemical.
NOTE
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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• DOSAGE LEVELS
• Must be at least equal to standard products.

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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• AQUATIC TOXICITY
• Must meet or exceed acute toxicity at standard
  use dilution for
• Fish
• Daphnia magna
• Algae

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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• TESTS/CLAIMS
• Conducted and/or verified by 3rd Party,
  Independent, Recognized Labs.
• Should be both
• Ingredients
• Whole Formulation

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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• SURFACTANTS
• Must be carefully selected so as to have the
  least negative effect on the environment
  biodegrade readily to components with low
  toxicity.
• For example Use - Linear Alcohol
  Ethoxylates
• - Linear Alkyl Sulfonates
• Do Not Use - NPE
• - APE
• - OPE
• - LAS
• - DBSA

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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• BUILDERS
• Must be carefully selected to biodegrade readily
  to compounds with low environmental concerns and
  mild pH.
• For example
• Use - Sodium Citrate
• - Silicates
• - Zeolites
• - Maleic Anhydride Derivatives
  (iminodisuccinate and polyaspartic acid)
• Do Not Use - Inorganic phosphates
• - Caustics (sodium metasilicate)
• - NTA
• - EDTA
• - MEA

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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• SOLVENTS
• Must be carefully selected to be low in toxicity
  to the environment and to humans.
• For example
• Use - Propylene Glycol
  Ethers
• - Methyl Soyate
• - Ethyle Lactate
• Do Not Use - Ethylene Glycol
• - Butyl Cellusolve
• - DLimonene

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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• HAZARDOUS INGREDIENTS
• Must not contain carcinogens, mutagens or
  teratogens.
• No cleaning product to contain ingredients found
  on the following lists
• US Department of Healths Hazardous Substances
  Fact Sheet
• SARA 313 40 CFR 372 (Toxic Chemicals)
• CERCLA 102 40 CFR 302 (Hazardous Substances)
• RCRA CFR 261 D (Hazardous Air Pollutants)
• Clean Water Act 313 40 CFR 63 (Hazardous Water
  Pollutants)
• National Pollutant Release Inventory (Canadian
  List)

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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• LD50S LC50S
• Compare the LD50s LC50s. The higher the
  number, the better.

LC50 Measures the acute Poisoning strength of a
chemical when it is swallowed or rubbed on the
skin. LD stands for the Lethal Dose. LD50 is
the dose of a chemical (product) at mg/kg on a
single occasion, which causes death in 50 of the
test group. LC50 Measures the acute poisoning
strength of a chemical when it is breathed in
from the air. LC stands for Lethal
Concentration. LC50 is the amount of a chemical
(product) at mg/l concentration in the air, which
causes death in 50 of the test group.
NOTE
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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• OZONE DEPLETING INGREDIENTS
• Must not contain these
• NATURAL RENEWABLE RESOURCES
• Whenever possible, only naturally-based,
  renewable ingredients such as grains, corn
  oils, palm kernel oil, coconut oil, sugar cane
  juices, glucoses, and corn soy based esters
  replacing petroleum based solvents should be
  used.
• PACKAGING
• Subject to availability, bottles/jugs/pails
  should contain post/pre consumer regrind labels
  using vegetable inks or printed on plastic,
  removable sleeves cartons made from pre/post
  recycled cardboard.
• CONCENTRATES
• Where possible, concentrates should be used to
  reduce packaging, transportation and at-use
  costs.

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3. TO BE PROVEN MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND

• ENDORSEMENTS
• Eco-Logo/Environmental Choice (Canada) -
  www.terrachoice.com
• Green Seal (U.S.A.) - www.greenseal.org
• NOTE Certifies products, not companies, and
  provides a list of certified products on their
  website.

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4. TO BE PROVEN SAFER FOR PEOPLE

• What are the key criteria to review/consider in
  order to have safer products for people (users,
  occupants and visitors).

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4. TO BE PROVEN SAFER FOR PEOPLE

• PRODUCTS NEED TO BE SAFE FOR
• The user
• The workplace environment
• Obligation to employees, consumers, patrons and
  visitors
• Limiting liability
• Reduce absenteeism caused by illness related to
  work
• Reduce costs related to accidents, workers safety
  and compensation
• Products that are safer for the environment are
  safer for people.

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4. TO BE PROVEN SAFER FOR PEOPLE

• Bill C 45 Legal Duties on Employers/Employees
• Did you know that effective March 31, 2004, in
  Canada, that through Bill C-45
• Company health safety programs now require a
  higher level of accountability
• Health safety negligence is a crime that
  results in a permanent criminal record
• The fine for a summary conviction is 100,000
  there are no ceilings for fines on indictable or
  more serious offences there is a maximum penalty
  of life imprisonment
• Foremen, lead hands, supervisors and workers all
  have important legal duties
• The Bill casts its net wider than any current
  Occupational Health Safety legislation

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4. TO BE PROVEN SAFER FOR PEOPLE

• Bill C 45 Legal Duties on Employers/Employees
• For more information, see the following website
• www.iapa.ca/about_iapa/about_iapa.asp?pageab
  out_media.htm
• Upon your review, you will note that if a company
  knowingly uses, or allows to be used in their
  facility, harmful cleaning chemicals and someone
  is injured, the company and all who direct the
  employee or Building Service Contractor can be
  criminally charged.

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4. TO BE PROVEN SAFER FOR PEOPLE

• HAZARDOUS INGREDIENTS
• No cleaning product to contain ingredients found
  on the following lists
• US Department of Healths Hazardous Substances
  Fact Sheet
• SARA 313 40 CFR 372 (Toxic Chemicals)
• CERCLA 102 40 CFR 302 (Hazardous Substances)
• RCRA CFR 261 D (Hazardous Air Pollutants)
• Clean Water Act 313 40 CFR 63 Hazardous Water
  Pollutants)
• National Pollutant Release Inventory Canadian
  List)
• Must not contain carcinogens, mutagens or
  teratogens.

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4. TO BE PROVEN SAFER FOR PEOPLE

• TOXICITY
• Must be considered essentially non-toxic (acute
  oral/dermal) according to WHIMIS and OSHA.

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4. TO BE PROVEN SAFER FOR PEOPLE
NOTE Greater the LD50 LC50, the less toxic
the product
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4. TO BE PROVEN SAFER FOR PEOPLE

• NPEs/APEs BLEACH
• Must not contain these
• IRRITATIONS
• Not to cause serious skin irritations,
  respiratory problems, or damage to nasal
  membranes
• NON FLAMMABLE NON CORROSIVE
• Must be considered non-flammable and
  non-corrosive at use dilutions

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• VOCs
• Must meet California standards.
• LOW FRAGRANCE LEVELS
• Should be low fragrance levels subject to ease of
  use and safety, product performance, price, and
  the other considerations.
• No scent is not necessarily safer.

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• FLASH POINT
• Should be greater than 65C (150F).
• MSDSs
• Should be Full/All Ingredients disclosure. Not
  the 1 rule.
• 16 part format Not 9
• Ecological Information (Biodegradability
  Aquatic Toxicity)
• Environment Regulation Information
• Individual Ingredients, as well as Total Formula
  LD50 information

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PRODUCT INFORMATION SHEET
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MSDS
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5. KEY CRITERIA OF GREEN SEAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
CHOICE PROGRAMS

• WOW Unless you have a lot of time and
  expertise, and the info from the manufacturers,
  how can you really be sure what you are using is
  relatively safe?
• -Time
• -Expertise
• -All required info
• USE Green Seal and/or Environmental Choice
  Certified Products, where available. Then you
  know that someone objectively tested the products
  and ingredients to a green criteria. Where
  there are no criteria, use the information in the
  previous sections, as well as the next sections,
  to compare products.
• Green is a moving target. It is a journey not
  a destination.

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5. KEY CRITERIA OF GREEN SEAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
CHOICE PROGRAMS
December 20, 2002     Dell Tech Laboratories is a
regulatory consulting firm that has been
providing guidance to manufacturers and users of
chemical products for over 22 years, with a focus
on regulatory compliance, product safety and
government registrations. Our services include
product assessments, reviews and classification
of products under the Hazardous Product Act, both
for consumer and industrial workplace
regulations. We are a Canadian General Standards
Board certified testing laboratory under the
requirements of ISO Guide 25. Our clients
include small and medium size manufacturers in
Canada and the United States as well as large
multinational companies. With greater
environmental concerns in today's world, many
different standards and criteria have been
developed. Green Seal Inc. and the Environmental
Choice Program have issued two of the more
popular standards. We have compared the Green
Seal Industrial and Institutional Cleaners
standard GS-37 to the Environmental Choice
Industrial and Commercial Cleaners standard
ECP-57 below            
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In my expert opinion, GS 37 and ECP 57 are very
similar with no material overall
differences/impact regarding safety or protection
for the environment. John Ott Dell Tech
Laboratories Ltd. Senior Business Development
Manager Jott_at_delltech.com [phone] ext.
22040
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6. COMMONLY USED HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS
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LIMITED USE SUBSTANCES
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HEALTH WARNING CATEGORY AND CHEMICAL
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Sources NPRI NPRI List The
Green Encyclopedia Irene Frank David
Brownstone CERCLA Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act Release
of hazardous substances in spills and fro
inactive or abandoned disposal sites
SARA 313 Toxic Chemicals
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6. COMMONLY USED HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS

• The aforementioned are hazardous therefore,
  must be limited subject to product performance,
  overall human safety and environmental
  soundness.
• The preceding lists are not intended to be
  complete, but rather to demonstrate.
• A good resource for the impact of cleaning
  products is www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/
  - Enter the CAS number and a report will be
  given.
• You should try to eliminate or at least reduce
  these chemicals. Where not possible, select
  products with the least amount of the ingredients
  by percentage at the product use dilution rate.

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• OBJECTIVE
• Provide guidelines to bidders to promote
  compliance with industry standards with respect
  to the following four areas
• Product Performance
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Environmental Stewardship
• Employee Training and Support

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• WHY
• The main reason for going green is for the health
  of yourself, your staff, the people who work in
  your buildings and the visitors to your
  facilities.
• It is a fact traditional cleaning products are
  hazardous to people and the environment. While
  the degree of hazard varies, the fact of the
  matter is the by going green, you can very
  quickly, easily and profoundly make a difference
  without impacting performance as well as labour
  and product cost.

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• HOW
• The key is to understand what green is what are
  the variables, considerations, and criteria of
  green and how to know a product is green given
  all the misinformation and spin being
  disseminated by many manufacturers, both large
  and small.
• Going green should not be a destination, but
  rather a journey. The key is to start. Start
  with one product or one area of cleaning and make
  a change.
• Demonstrate your commitment to helping create a
  greener, cleaner and safer future. Make a
  difference today that will affect tomorrow.

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• A SOUND PRINCIPLE
• The precautionary principle requires authorities
  to take preventive action when there is a risk of
  severe and irreversible damage.
• Action is required, even in the absence of
  certainty about possible ensuing damage and
  without waiting for full scientific proof of the
  cause-effect relationship.
• When disagreement exists about the need to take
  action, the burden of proof must be reversed and
  placed on those who contend the activity will not
  have an impact.

Source The National Round Table on the
Environment and the Economy Sustainable
Strategies for Oceans. 1998.
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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• FACTORS
• Every decision you make for your facility very
  likely takes into account three important
  factors
• Price
• Performance
• Protection

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE
• If Price Performance were the only factors,
  your facility would be using only highly
  aggressive, economical but dangerous chemicals
  like bleach, ammonia and muriatic acid.
• If any other combination of any two factors were
  considered alone then you know you would not be
  acting in the best interest of your facility.
• No, you need all three and people depend on you
  to deliver.

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7. LEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• PRODUCT PERFORMANCE GUIDELINES
• Products to perform as well or better then their
  traditional counterparts as determined by use and
  testing by the end user.
• Products are to be manufactured in an ISO 9002 or
  equivalent registered facility.
• Disinfectants are to have EPA and as/if required,
  Government of Canada, Health Canada approval.

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• PRODUCT PERFORMANCE GUIDELINES
• Floor finishes are to have Underwriters
  Laboratories (UL) approval or verified by third
  party to meet or exceed American Society for
  Testing and Materials (ASTM) Slip Coefficient
  standard of 0.55.
• Carpet cleaning products are to pass the Dupont
  Stainmaster Test.
• Characteristics of necessary anti-static floor
  finishes are to have been confirmed by a
  laboratory approved by a Government Agency or
  equivalent.

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
• Product claims and effects are to have been
  confirmed by a recognized laboratory approved by
  an agency of the Government or equivalent.
• Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
  (WHIMIS) Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) are
  to be in the sixteen (16) part format and fully
  list ALL ingredients contained in the products
  (not the less than 1 rule).

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
• Cleaning products are to contain no known or
  suspected carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens, NPE
  or any ingredient found on the following lists of
  hazardous products
• SARA 313
• CERCLA
• USA Clean Water, Section 112
• NRPI

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
• Products are to be acute non-toxic per
  WHIMIS/OSHA standards as tested by a recognized
  laboratory approved by an agency of the
  Government or equivalent.
• Product are not to cause serious irritation,
  respiratory problems or damage to nasal membranes
  (as presented in Section 3 of MSDS).
• Products at-use dilutions are to be non-flammable
  and non-corrosive.
• Where criteria exist, products are to be Green
  Seal and/or Environmental Choice Certified.

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
• Product claims and effects are to have been
  confirmed by a recognized laboratory approved by
  an agency of the Government or equivalent.
• Cleaning products are not to contain Nonyl Phenol
  Ethoxylate (NPE) Alky Phenol Ethoxylate (APE),
  or any ingredient found on the following lists of
  hazardous products
• SARA 313
• CERCLA
• USA Clean Water Act, Section 112
• NRPI
• Where criteria exist, products area to be Green
  Seal and/or Environmental Choice Certified.

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7. CLEANING TENDERS/BIDS-PRODUCTS GUIDELINES

• PRODUCT SUPPLIER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
• The product supplier must have a demonstrated
  capacity to provide the
• following
• Dilution control systems
• WHMIS training and support materials (such as
  wall-mounted
• information charts)
• Written best practice procedures
• Ability to train your staff in procedures
• Trouble-shooting services

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