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The two-day Playground Maintenance Technician Program (PMT) focuses on practical playground maintenance practices, inspection principles and best practices in making repairs.

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SafeOregon is a program created for Oregon students, parents, school staff, community members and law officers to report and respond to student safety threats.  To see if any of your schools are signed up for SafeOregon already, use this link and start typing your school's name into the School Name field!  SafeOregon

The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has published their final "Testing for Schools Protocol" on their "Radon Gas and Public Health" Frequently Asked Questions webpage, which you can access by clicking this link.

Oregon school districts may use the published protocol for their own plans, which are required to be submitted to OHA via email on or before September 1, 2016. 

The email address for submission, as well as contact information for questions, is listed at the same webpage.

ORPA is hosting a seminar on October 1 and 2, 2015, in Sherwood, Oregon, for those charged with playground maintenance or inspection.

For more details and to register go to:  http://www.orpa.org/events/event_details.asp?id=514963

Teachers, educators , administrators or facility managers that have labs are using the School Chemical List to evaluate the hazards of pure chemical compounds or chemical constituents they have in stock. Use this link to search for information the assess risks and help inventory chemicals.http://www.lhwmp.org/home/educators/schoolchemicallist.aspx 

Register now for the 2014 OSSOA Summer Workshop at The Riverhouse in Bend Oregon.  The theme of this year’s conference is “It is Better to Prepare and Prevent, than to Repair and Repent.”   We will have sessions on Dealing with a Property Loss: Before,During and After, Current Liability Claims Trends, and High Risk Activities Schools Should Avoid.  There will be Roundtable sessions on Building Restoration, Emergency Prepardness, Bleacher Maintenance and Safety and OSSOA.  There will also be raffles,  vendor tables and many other opportunities to network and share ideas with experts and peers. 

The deadline for registration is Friday, July 18th.

We are thinking of our colleagues and others dealing with the shooting at Reynolds High with the deepest sympathy.  Our association and membership extends our condolences and any support we can provide.