As home stagers -- who often oversee new paint, replacing flooring and carpeting, refinishing in older homes where lead paint exists, and ensuring that moldy bathrooms and leaky ceilings are all fixed in time for open house -- we need to ensure that the means to the end are safe for the home's current and future occupants.

Two things every home stager should check out: 

US Environmental Protection Agency's website on Indoor Air Quality at www.epa.gov/iaq - a wealth of information regarding safe practices when dealing with potential hazards to indoor air quality, even during the simplest of home fixes. 

An invaluable book entitled My House Is Killing Me by Jeffrey May.  www.myhouseiskillingme.com/index or available on Amazon.  This book educates all of us about the unbelievably simple and common mistakes homeowners make that can significantly compromise the health of a home's residents, and how to correct them. 

Lisa