The United States Environmental Protection Agency classifies mercury as a persistent, bio-accumulative toxin(1), indicating that its toxicity does not diminish through decomposition or chemical reacti...
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Elf and Safety’ (H&S) gets something of a bad press these days with the most benign of activities being banned by allegedly over-zealous people. This is unfortunately driven as a response to the ‘wher...
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St Andrews Hall is a 14th Century building in central Norwich, England, and is owned by Norwich City Council. The hall is a popular venue for concerts and other licensed events but in recent years has...
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Shutdowns, revisions or the deactivation of systems consistently pose new challenges for the companies affected. Maintaining occupational safety and preventing danger, as well as ensuring quality and...
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Could air contaminants affect our health?
Good air quality in buildings is vital for people who spend much of the day indoors. We spend an average of 90 % of our time indoors, more than 20 hours in e...
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In striving for the construction of energy efficient and cost-effective buildings, the imperative issue of the buildings Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is often overlooked.
This can often lead to an unheal...
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Employees working in the harsh environments found in cold stores and refrigerated warehouses, where temperatures can reach temperatures as low as -40°C, often encounter extremely serious and potential...
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One full credit is offered by the US Green Building Council for LEED IEQ credit 3.2 in new and renovated buildings. This requires the air handling system in the building to be run, or the space “flush...
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It is now well recognised that occupational disease is the biggest cause of work-related deaths in the UK and that thousands of people suffer from the results of an occupational disease each year. Occ...
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An Urban Community is a local, intermunicipal government institution, regrouping cities over a large territory. Every year, its technical department carries out numerous studies and measurements deali...
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Success of mosquitoes as insect vectors of human disease is linked to their ability to seek out, pin-point and target human hosts in preference animal hosts, achieved by strong insect attraction to sp...
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Radiation is a form of energy that occurs naturally in the physical world. It is the emission and propagation of energy through space or through matter in the form of particles or waves. There are two...
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Worldwide, increasingly stringent regulations are coming into force limiting the exposure of workers to industrial noise. Over 1 million employees in Great Britain are exposed to levels of noise which...
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With somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million people employed in construction, it is one of the largest industries in the United States. That’s a lot of people to send home safe every day. Construc...
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The role that sample containers play in the field of research is changing. These days research laboratories, whether it be for clinical trials, QA/AC pharmaceuticals, drugs manufacturers, forensic res...
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