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Topic: 'Dust'

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• Indoor Air Quality

  IAQ Results in Improved Academic Performance: Evidence from Scientific Literature

  Studies show the impact of good indoor air quality on the health and performance of students and staff.
• Flooring

  A Commentary on Carpet

  Which is healthier: carpet or hard floors? The answer to that question is more complex and less clear-cut than you might think.
• Walk Through

  EPA Walkthrough Inspection Checklist

  Use this checklist from EPA to make your IAQ walkthrough inspection as productive as it can be.
• Indoor Air Quality

  Diagnosing and Solving IAQ Problems: What are the Symptoms?

  Evaluating the symptoms can help narrow down possible causes and can help you determine what checks need to be done.
• Hospital

  Diagnosing and Solving IAQ Problems: Where and When Do the Problems Occur?

  Determining where and when problems occur, and by which individuals, can help management determine the source of the indoor air quality problem.
• Indoor Environment

  Fact Sheet: Building Ecology

  Microbial communities are an important part of the complex, dynamic systems we call “buildings”.
• Cleaning Science

  What the Cleaning Industry Can Learn from Cleanrooms

  How can cleanroom cleaning procedures and technologies be adapted for attaining low airborne and surface bacterial levels in home, school, hospital, and industrial spaces?
• Carpet

  Commentary: No Link Between Carpet, Allergy and Asthma

  Werner Braun, president of the Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI), and member of the HFI Healthy Carpet Workgroup, offers his perspective.
• Mold

  Preventing Mold Related Problems in the Indoor Workplace

  OSHA guide to preventing mold, mold sources, and building-related illnesses.
• Healthy Schools

  Environmental Management for High Performance Schools

  Without a long-term commitment to comprehensive environmental management, not even the best high performance school can hope to stay high performing for very long.
• Schools

  Commentary: The Trojan Couch and other Weapons of Class Obstruction

  Upholstered couches and chairs, rugs, and bean bag chairs harbor dust mites, pet dander, and other contaminants that adversely affect classroom environmental quality.
• Asthma

  Curbing Asthma in Schools Through Better Cleaning Doesn’t Cost, It Pays

  Asthma is a big problem in schools, and reducing it is a way for cleaning product distributors to make a big difference.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Tips for Healthier School Carpet Cleaning

  A hands-on guide from a school cleaning expert.
• Indoor Air Quality

  Students Face Health Risks from Air Contamination

  Excerpts from a report by the Environmental Working Group.
• Asthma

  HFI Issues Asthma Prevention Recommendations for Use of Cleaning Solutions

  A clean facility is a healthy facility - most of the time - but it’s ironic that some products designed to make our buildings cleaner and healthier may contribute to asthma.
• Restaurants

  Restaurant Facts, Inspection and Cleanliness

  Many safety inspection infractions involve cleaning issues.
• Schools

  School Walk-Throughs Take a Commonsense Approach

  Walk-throughs are a practical learning experience for staff that builds awareness, confidence and skills – essential elements of a sustainable IAQ program.
• Indoor Environment

  Safer Alternatives to Toxic Chemicals Needed to Protect Workers and Communities

  Hazardous chemicals and products are made and used in the greatest quantities in workplaces — where they first expose workers.
• CO2 Levels

  Why Measure Carbon Dioxide Inside Buildings?

  Current technology allows easy and relatively inexpensive measurement of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) as an indicator to help ensure ventilation systems (for high density occupancy zones) are delivering the recommended minimum quantities of outside air to the building’s occupants.
• Indoor Air Quality

  Four Elements of IAQ Problems

  Four elements - sources, the HVAC system, pollutant pathways, and occupants - are involved in the development of IAQ problems.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Carpet and Health

  The benefits of carpet are forgotten or ignored in the face of perceived hazards.
• Carpet Cleaning

  Health Benefits of Carpet Maintenance

  There is a widespread perception that carpet cannot be kept clean (sanitary) and that because of its inability to be kept clean, carpet contributes significantly to the deterioration of indoor environmental quality, especially leading to unhealthy indoor air quality. This unnecessary misconception often leads to policy decisions for removing carpet from many environments such as schools, health care facilities, and public agencies.
• Indoor Air Quality

  IAQ Basics

  There are many factors that can affect IAQ, such as human activity within the building, the building’s construction materials, and the types of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in a building.
• Indoor Air Quality

  How Does Indoor Air Quality Impact Student Health and Academic Performance?

  Making the case for comprehensive IAQ management in schools.
• Healthy Schools

  The Science of Cleaning for Healthy Schools

  A healthy school needs to engage in a scientific and professional cleaning process to realize its health objectives.
• Air Cleaning

  Will Air Cleaning Reduce Health Effects from Indoor Air Pollutants?

  Regardless of how efficient and effective air-cleaning devices are in removing pollutants, a question still remains about their ability to reduce adverse health effects.