Health & Safety
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
WHO classifies hoarding as a medical condition
If more sufferers seek help, landlords could be among the beneficiaries of better awareness and kinder perceptions of hoarding.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Hot weather plans get a workout in summer 2018
Workplace health and safety practitioners advise that measures to safeguard building services personnel from heat stress should be fairly straightforward.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Updated ASHRAE Legionella standard released
ANSI/ASHRAE 188-2018 outlines best practices for preventing growth and spread of Legionella in building water systems.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Partnership to support global sanitation goal
The world’s leading children’s organization has tapped the expertise of LIXIL to bring clean, safe toilets to vulnerable kids.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Environmental surfaces can be infection gateway
Recently released guidelines from Ontario's Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee address the cleaning and disinfecting challenges that housekeeping staff continue to face in healthcare facilities.
REMI Network
Nominations open for B.C.’s technical safety awards
Technical Safety BC is gearing up to recognize outstanding achievement, innovation and leadership in the field at awards this fall.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Makers of discredited firefighting foams sued
The suit seeks to hold the companies liable for contamination that the chemical formulas, PFOS and PFOA, caused to soil and water in the vicinity of four airports in New York State.
CondoBusiness
Lounge furniture targeted as multi-res fire risk
Some condo lobbies may be looking spare lately because the lounge furniture that usually occupies these spaces is being targeted as a fire risk.
CondoBusiness
How to remediate previously hoarded units
What cleaning and repair work is required to remediate a previously hoarded unit? An extreme-cleaning expert answers.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Visitor management on the modern campus
Many campuses are vast in size — the University of British Columbia, for example, occupies more than four square kilometres of land. Within these campuses
CondoBusiness
Excess moisture increases pest pressure
In addition to making living spaces uncomfortable, indoor moisture problems can lead to structural damage, health and pest problems.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Post-construction cleaning offers fresh start
Post-construction cleaning is a critical project step that helps remove harmful dust and residue left behind by new builds and renovations alike.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Construction side effects carry deadly risks
Living through construction may be a fact of life for city dwellers, but living through construction can be a fact of life and death for hospital patients.
CondoBusiness
Builders abuzz about cannabis legalization
Ontario’s residential construction industry is anxiously awaiting tools from the province to help it uphold its workplace health and safety obligations when recreational cannabis becomes legal next year.
CondoBusiness
Required upgrades to single-speed elevators lifted
The TSSA recently lifted the requirement to undertake certain upgrades to the controls of single-speed elevators, but it doesn’t mean building owners should abandon modernization.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Labeling change targets food waste
The terms “sell by” and “use by” are likely to be replaced on labeling with the new, voluntary term “best if used by” on many food products.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ignition risks of flammable refrigerants probed
Refrigerant leaks could be particularly problematic in reach-in or walk-in coolers since flammable concentrations could build in these confined spaces and disperse outward when the door is opened.
