READ: IAQ Sampling Midwest School, Wyoming
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READ: ATSDR Health Consultation Salem, OR School District
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(2 RC) - The Environmental Toxicology Program (ETP) at Oregon State Public Health issued a public health advisory to all school districts in Oregon. The advisory was prompted by the release of two public health consultations from Ohio and Michigan related to flooring manufactured by the 3M Corporation from the early 1960’s to 1980. According to 3M, mercury was used as a catalyst when mixing the polymer to form the floor… (ATSDR, July 2006)
Read MoreREAD: Environmental Health Assessment - School Bus
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(4 RC) - The Oregon Public Health Division Environmental Health Assessment Program (EHAP) was asked by the Salem-Keizer School District to conduct this Health Consultation (HC). The purpose of this HC is to evaluate the public health risk for children who may have come into contact with contaminants found on several school buses in the Salem-Keizer School District. Following a fire that destroyed and/or damaged several school buses… (ATSDR, Feb 2009)
Read MoreREAD: Evaluation of Follow-up Indoor Air Samples - Barbershop
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(2 RC) - The owners of Farmer’s Insurance expressed concerns about the potential for exposure to dry-cleaning chemicals in indoor air from subsurface and aboveground sources at Eastside Laundry. To address these concerns, DOH and TCHD conducted indoor air sampling at Eastside Laundry and two adjacent businesses (Farmer’s Insurance and Roy’s) in the winter of 2002. This sampling event revealed PCE levels in indoor air… (ATSDR, Sept 2007)
Read MoreREAD: ATSDR Evaluation of IAQ - Corona Del Sol HS, Arizona
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(2 RC) - Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) was requested to provide assistance in addressing concerns about air quality at Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, AZ. This health consultation follows up a previous report produced by ADHS in May 2008 and addresses previously unaddressed issues regarding possible exposure to and potential health risks from formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the indoor air at the school… (ATSDR, Sept 2008)
Read MoreREAD: ATSDR Health Consultation Gila River, AZ
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(2 RC) - Samples had an asbestos content greater than 1%, which is the regulatory level used to define an ACM. All three samples were found to contain 2-5% chrysotile asbestos. After receiving these sample results, GRIC OSH recommended that the Gila Crossing Presbyterian Church be closed until the ACM could be properly remediated… (ATSDR, Mar 2005)
Read MoreREAD: Sampling and Characterization of Bioaerosols
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(4 RC) - Bioaerosols are airborne particles that originate from biological sources including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, protozoa, and viruses. Examples of bioaerosols encountered in occupational environments include plant pollen, algae, fungal spores, bacteria such as actinomycetes, droplets produced during coughing and sneezing that may contain bacteria and viruses, dust containing insect excreta, animal dander, and fragments derived from each of these sources. … (NIOSH, Feb 2020)
Read MoreREAD: Factors Affecting Aerosol Sampling
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(3 RC) - The need for aerosol sampling is driven by research or regulatory needs to understand or quantify the properties of airborne particles in the workplace or ambient environments. The property of most common interest is the airborne concentration of particulate mass defined as the aerosol mass per unit volume of air … (NIOSH, Feb 2020)
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