Provide separate ventilation in all areas with chemical use or storage

Rationale: Ensuring that chemical products are either third-party verified as safe, or that their storage areas are properly ventilated, reduces the risk of exposure to airborne toxins and potential resultant symptoms, including wheezing, asthma, allergic reactions, and skin irritation. 

Requirements

Demonstrate compliance with one of the options below:

Option 1 - Qualifying Standards (Full Credit):

Demonstrate compliance with the following requirement:

Multi-Tenant Retail, Retail

1. Use or store chemicals that meet one of the following qualifying standards: 

• • • • Green Seal 
      • California Code of Regulations
      • Ecologo
      • EPA Safer Choice
      •  ISO 14024-compliant (Type 1) Ecolabel

Areas with chemical use that require the qualifying standards to prevent the circulation of chemical pollutants in indoor air must include but are not limited to the following, as applicable:
– storage rooms
– garages
– janitor's closets
– laundry areas
– high volume copy/print rooms, where output exceeds 40,000 pages or 20,000 pages double
sided per month
– art rooms
– laboratories
– workshops
– salons.

Option 2 - Safe Storage (Full Credit):

Demonstrate compliance with the following requirement:

Multi-Tenant Retail, Retail

1. Ensure that all chemicals which do not meet one of the following qualifying standards are stored in a space that is ventilated separately:
   • • Green Seal 
     • California Code of Regulations
     • Ecologo
     • EPA Safer Choice
     • ISO 14024-compliant (Type 1) Ecolabel.
2. Ensure that separate source ventilation is provided for all areas within the building(s) that include the use or storage of chemical products, including all of the following:
   1. • storage rooms
      • garages
      • janitor's closets
      • laundry areas
      • high volume copy/print rooms, where output exceeds 40,000 pages or 20,000 pages double sided per month
      • art rooms
      • laboratories
      • workshops
      • salons

Compliance Documentation

Design Pathway

MTR, RT

Option 1:

• Checkbox to certify that all chemicals used and stored on-site will meet the following qualifying standards (select all that apply):
  • • Green Seal
    • California Code of Regulations
    • Ecologo
    • EPA Safer Choice
    •  ISO 14024-compliant (Type 1) Ecolabel
• Upload a document showing the qualifying standards of the chemicals used and stored on-site.

Option 2:

Requirement 1

• Checkbox to certify that all chemicals on-site which do not meet one of the qualifying standards will be stored in a separately ventilated space

Requirement 2

• Upload an annotated design drawing(s) identifying:
  
  • • the identified space(s) within the building(s) that will include the use or storage of chemical products.
    • how the identified space(s) will be ventilated separately.

Built Pathway

MTR, RT

Option 1:

• Checkbox to certify that all chemicals used and stored on-site meet the following qualifying standards (select all that apply):
  • • Green Seal
    • California Code of Regulations
    • Ecologo
    • EPA Safer Choice
    •  ISO 14024-compliant (Type 1) Ecolabel
• Upload a document showing the qualifying standards of the chemicals used and stored on-site.

Option 2:

Requirement 1

• Checkbox to certify that all chemicals on-site which do not meet one of the qualifying standards are stored in a separately ventilated space.

Requirement 2

• Upload an annotated design drawing(s) identifying:
  
  • • the identified space(s) within the building(s) that include the use or storage of chemical products.
    • how the identified spaces are ventilated separately.