Carbon dioxide gas detectors can utilize an automated background calibration program to set the clean air level on a regular basis.
Any time there is moisture, we can get mold growth, especially when relative humidities are greater than 60 percent and the temperatures are higher than the recommended temps.
Thanks to innovative technologies such as aerosol-based duct sealing, solving issues and attaining optimal indoor air quality is easier now than ever before.
A Canadian research group has released a web-based support tool.
The low-cost solution is intended to be used when cutting fiber-cement siding.
A group of speakers discussed nanomaterials and new ways to evaluate and measure their existence in numerous working conditions.
"Our employees realize that IEC values their well-being and is driven to ensure that everyone makes it home to their families each night," said safety manager Stuart Hughes.
Comments submitted Sept. 15 by Christine A.D. Lorenzo, CIH, the association's president, ask NIOSH to either include e-cigarettes in the definition of smokeless tobacco in its draft Current Intelligence Bulletin or to provide recommendations for limiting their use in indoor workplaces.
OSHA cited the company with 38 violations, adding up to $341,550 in fines.
AIHA is one of the partners in the new Indoor Environmental Quality Global Alliance.
OSHA issued citations to Acadian Fine Foods, LLC for allegedly exposing workers to dangerous carbon dioxide levels.
The agency's latest health hazard evaluation report detailed its evaluation of a federal government office complex where contamination with polychlorinated biphenyls, solvents, metals, and other chemicals was suspected.
The Department of Labor sued Donald Pottern, doing business as Crown Furniture, for allegedly firing a worker who had filed a complaint.
This new interim policy means that a chronic toxic effect could occur across a 24 hour period of time and any average 24-hour exposure measurement above the RfC is cause for prompt action. This is unprecedented and scientifically indefensible.
Indoor air quality can be improved by controlling the sources of VOC emissions.
It's time to talk health and safety in Montreal at the 73rd AIHce event.
Wireless instruments and data aggregation systems offer additional advantages for IAQ monitoring.
The Environmental Health in Low-Energy Buildings conference will take place in October 2013 in Vancouver, Canada.
Sometimes you cannot find a solution that works. Admit it and keep trying to find answers, but know that some complaints you may never be able to solve.