Archive for November 2020

OSHA has released guidance on how to ventilate offices to decrease the airborne spread of COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently said small COVID-19 particles can travel longer distances in enclosed spaces that have “inadequate ventilation.” OSHA is instructing offices to “consider steps to optimize building ventilation.” adding, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning professionals can…

Thanksgiving is going to look very different this year, with public health experts warning that traditional plans for large family gatherings and interstate travel could fuel another surge in coronavirus cases, according to Sinclair News. Dr. Anthony Fauci, top U.S. immunologist and director of National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, advised that people may…

Sustainability – not self-evidently related to the pandemic – has been made more important by COVID-19 as people have become more aware of how their actions can affect not only each other but also the environment, according to WARC research. In The WARC Guide to effective packaging, Jessica Trief, executive director of brand strategy at New…

OSHA issued respiratory protection guidance for assisted living, nursing home, and other long-term care facilities. The guidance focuses on the use of respirators while emphasizing a primary reliance upon engineering and administrative controls for controlling exposures, consistent with good industrial hygiene practice and the agency’s traditional adherence to the “hierarchy of controls.” The industrial hygiene “hierarchy of…