HEAT AND OZONE POLICY
FFA-R
In an interest to protect student health, faculty and staff should follow the protocols below on ozone action
and heat advisory days. Students will be allowed outside for Physical Education, recess, or extracurricular
activities using the following guidelines:
Level
PPB
Ozone
Color
Designation
Good
0-50
Green
No health effects are expected, no special action needed
Moderate
51-100
Yellow
Students with a respiratory illness such as asthma, bronchitis,
pneumonia, and emphysema should limit prolonged exposure.
Unhealthy for
Sensitive
Groups
101-150
151-200
Orange
Red
Student with a respiratory illness such as asthma, bronchitis,
pneumonia, and emphysema should limit exposure entirely.
High-energy activities for elementary age children should be
limited. All other students should be allowed adequate access to
water and shade. For every thirty minutes of high-energy
activities, students should be allowed ten minutes of rest.
Students involved in outdoor extracurricular activities such as
athletics, band, drill, or cheerleading., should also follow the
guidelines as stated above.
Very
Unhealthy
Hazardous
201-300
301-500
Purple
Maroon
Exposure for students should be limited entirely. Students
involved in outdoor extracurricular activities such as athletics,
band drill, or cheerleading, should engage in indoor practice on
the days designated very unhealthy or hazardous.
Action Recommended
Sensitive groups are defined as children who are active in outdoor activities, people involved in high-energy
activities, and people with respiratory disease. Students with respiratory disease should follow the advice of a
doctor or guardian.
In order to help keep the campus informed, designate a person on your campus to be responsible for
notifying you of ozone action days. This person should subscribe to the alert list server located on the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality (TECQ) – formerly Texas Natural Resource Conservation
Commission’s (TNRCC) website at
http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/compliance/monitoring/air/monops/forecast_today.html and
http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/compliance/monops/aqi_rpt.pl for the hourly air quality index.
In addition, you can use one or all of the following methods for notifying your campus:
1. E-mail alerts to the teaching staff
2. Use color coded flags in easily visible areas.
3. Include ozone levels in the morning announcements
4. Include a definition of the ozone level for the day, temperature (high expected) and precautions.
CONTACT: ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF
EDUCATION SUPPORT
Revised 8-27-08