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Showing posts with label Chris D'Andrea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris D'Andrea. Show all posts

Friday, February 06, 2009

Keeping Your Family Safe Program - Talks about NYC Guidelines

Monday, February 2, 2009, we had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Chris D’Andrea, an Environmental Scientist, and Certified Industrial Hygienist who oversees the Office of Environmental Investigations with the New York City Department Health and Mental Hygiene for our internet radio program “Keeping Your Family Safe” (find it at http://www.voiceamerica.com/ on the Green Talk Network). Mr. D’Andrea is the editor of New York City’s “Guidelines on Assessment and Remediation of Fungi in Indoor Environments. In our program, we discussed the guidelines and covered the following points:

  • The differences between the current update and the previous guidelines.
  • The importance of the visual inspection.
  • The different cleaning methods of soap or detergent, disinfectants, fogging, and anti-microbials.
  • Importance of removing the mold.
  • Health effects appendix of the standard.
  • Importance of removing moisture intrusion and its potential health effects.
  • Changing remediation to three sizes versus four.
  • Addition of the EPA table as a reference.

This Monday, February 9, 2009, we will be discussing Making a Sustainable Home Healthy with Dr. Marilyn Black founder of Greenguard Environmental Institute that oversees the Greenguard Certification Program.

That Time of Year! Conferences, Posting Requirements, and OSHA Violations Increased!

It's that time of year again. We're between conferences.  February 15-16, 2024 was the Professional Abatement Contractors of New Yor...