At a time when resources are running low…budgets, space, PPE and other equipment…be sure to remember the biggest tool you have at your disposal: your building. We heard about one Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who put their building to

There is further evidence to show that building science—or more specifically, how we manage it—can have a major effect on infection rates. Dr. Stephanie Taylor and her team conducted a study of 370 patients to try to identify the major cause(s) of infection. They looked at the usual s

Most of the time we’re called in to figure out how a facility (the physical environment) is causing or contributing to infection. But sometimes, we like to be on the other side of it—before the infections happen. Proactive instead of reactive, so to say. According to a new guide book

Claire Foster Tags: CIH, CSP, Environmental Health and Safety, IAQ, Industrial Hygiene, infection control, safety