Health & Safety
Canadian Facility Management & Design
BIFMA updates its ergonomics guideline
The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association recently revised its 2002 ergonomics guideline.
Canadian Property Management
Ventilation for acceptable air quality
The most recent edition of ASHRAE standard 62.1 specifies 17 cubic feet per minute of fresh air per occupant as the minimum acceptable ventilation level ...
Canadian Property Management
‘Nutrition labelling’ for building products
The Health Product Declaration (HPD) open standard was developed to provide support for evaluating products ...
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Reducing the risk of Legionella
Any water source in a building that can be aerosolized may be a Legionella risk, particularly where the water is dirty, remains still or is not exposed to a ...
Design Quarterly
Health advocacy
A collective effort is underway to develop a Health Product Declaration, which is aimed at creating a consistent format for reporting product content ...
Canadian Property Management
Changes coming from WHMIS
Retraining in WHMIS will likely be required upon the introduction of the globally harmonized system for classifying and labelling chemicals.
Canadian Property Management
Legislation gets to the heart of health and safety
Manitoba is the first Canadian province to mandate automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in specific facilities.
