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On June 10, 2021, Marty Walsh, Labor Secretary and acting assistant Secretary of Labor for Jim Frederick of Occupational Safety and Health Administration, announced the “emergency...

Friday, June 11, 2021 On June 10, 2021, Marty Walsh, Labor Secretary and acting assistant Secretary of Labor for Jim Frederick of Occupational Safety and Health Administration, announced the “emergency temporary standard,” or ETS, that identifies what employers must do to protect health care workers from COVID-19. The ETS is specifically tailored to employees in hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities; emergency responders; home healthcare workers; and employees i...

We’ve been saying for some time now that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was expected to release an emergency temporary standard on COVID-19 – now that day has...

On June 10, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) released the first nationwide workplace safety rule in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. OSHA’s guidance is...

Prepare sprinklers and air conditioning units for the summer Advertisement METRO DETROIT — Pollen is in the air and the sound of lawn mowers revving up for the first time can be heard around subdivisions everywhere. With the advent of warmer weather, experts weighed in on what homeowners should do to prepare for summer in Michigan — the season of sprinklers and air conditioning.   Sprinkler systems Bill Dorton, owner of Blue Line Irrigation, said his company is busy this time of year doin...

Medical Guide 2021: HVAC technology may help limit spread of virus There’s been a lot of debate as to whether HVAC systems can lead to the spread of the coronavirus. It all comes down to the spread of respiratory droplets that carry the disease known as Covid-19. If the system recirculates the same air and someone is infected with the disease, the A/C could increase the risk of infection, not minimize it. Furthermore, most systems come with air filters that will not protect against the virus....

Copy The 2020 COVID-19 outbreak has deeply redefined our relationship to public spaces. Fear of transmission (both direct and indirect) has closed schools, restaurants, office buildings, and transportation hubs, and has limited access to other densely populated locations and shared spaces. We have also learned that COVID-19 primarily transmits through the spread of water droplets from infected individuals, especially in scenarios of close contact, such as prolonged indoor activities. As a resul...

Capture Coating effectively kills Covid-19 indoors The spread and lingering impacts of the Covid-19 virus can be effectively and cheaply stopped with a new hydrophobic nanocoating applied to nonwoven filter fabrics in common HVAC systems. 1st March 2021 The availability of Capture Coating, developed by Curran Biotech, based in Houston, Texas, is being rushed to distributors and retailers across the globe. It is already being used in eleven states across the USA and expects this to be expanded t...

“There are a variety of masks but the 3 basic ones are: surgical, N95 and cloth,” Dr. Robert Mordkin is Chief Medical Officer for LetsGetChecked tells SheKnows. “As a general statement, masks help reduce the risk of infection (including COVID-19) but decreasing the amount of droplets released into the surrounding air when the wearer is talking, coughing or sneezing. The N95 masks, in particular, can filter out both large and small particles or droplets…Countries that have aggressivel...

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