Topic: 'Gases'
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- When renovating or remodeling, extra precaution should be taken to ensure the safety of students and staff. Here's how to do so before, during, and after renovation.
- Here's the details on how to keep students and staff safe when renovating and remodeling.
- After hypothesizing potential causes, you can perform simple checks to determine if the problem is obvious or if deeper investigation is required.
- Recommended techniques and tools to measure for adequate airflow, lighting, and thermal comfort - relative humidity and temperature.
- Evaluating the symptoms can help narrow down possible causes and can help you determine what checks need to be done.
- General process to troubleshooting indoor air quality problems in commercial facilities.
- OSHA guide to preventing mold, mold sources, and building-related illnesses.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hazardous chemicals and products are made and used in the greatest quantities in workplaces — where they first expose workers.
- 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.
- The benefits of carpet are forgotten or ignored in the face of perceived hazards.
- 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.
- 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.
- Making the case for comprehensive IAQ management in schools.
- A healthy school needs to engage in a scientific and professional cleaning process to realize its health objectives.
- 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.
- By all accounts, disinfection of drinking water is one of the major public
health triumphs of the 20th century. No human endeavor, however, is without risk.