Filtration Archives | Extract-All

Presidential Executive Order: Covid-19 and Worker Protection

What this means for businesses regarding indoor air quality On January 21, 2021, a Presidential Executive Order was signed regarding the policy of ensuring the health and safety of American workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic. (1) Before this order was issued, OSHA developed a Covid-19 planning guide (2) to help businesses identify workplace risk levels Read More

Asbestos, Indoor Air Quality, and Occupational Risk

The September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001 claimed nearly 3,000 lives and wounded more than 6,000 others. The devastation didn’t end there if you add the number of people who will die from asbestos-related disease resulting from the rescue, recovery, and cleanup efforts in New York City in the weeks that followed. Because asbestos was Read More

Hazardous Air Pollutants Have Tire Manufacturers Slamming On The Breaks

Air pollutants may prove hazardous to rubber industry workers. We Americans like our cars. Our country ranked #3 on a list of countries with the highest car ownership per capita – nearly 800 cars per 1,000 people. At four tires (or more) per vehicle, that’s a lot of tires. In fact, market data compiled by Read More

Best Practices for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Includes Indoor Air Quality Controls

As part of the quality monitoring process for pharmaceutical products, maintaining a sterile environment with air filters is crucial.

Air Purifier Performance and Longevity

Extend Product Life with Regular Filter Maintenance The sources of poor indoor air quality (IAQ) in industrial, commercial, and institutional buildings have increased over the years. Luckily, so have methods to fight the ill-effects of those pollution sources, methods which have proven to safeguard the health of building occupants. One of the most effective ways Read More

Protecting Our Nation’s Elderly from Coronavirus

How Indoor Air Quality Affects Transmissibility The impact of Covid-19 on the country’s senior population is a story continuing to unfold. But we can use current facts and figures to illustrate what our elderly are up against in terms of this pandemic. Unfortunately, the statistics paint a grim picture. Presently, there are over 51 million Read More

Occupational Risk For Shoe Repairers

Those who remember the children’s story, The Elves And The Shoemaker, likely envision the protagonist hunched over his cobbler’s bench, surrounded by tools as he stitched together leather pieces and resoled a pair of boots. Nowhere in the picture books were plumes of dust depicted. Neither the shoemaker nor the elves that made and fixed the shoes were shown coughing from toxic fumes or wincing from the sting of dirty air. And yet, back then, it was most certainly the reality of the trade.

COVID-19 Transmission in Student Housing

From Dorm Rooms to Fraternity Houses, Air Purifiers Can Help COVID-19. The statistics at the time of this writing are grim: Global confirmed cases: 31,389,682 U.S. confirmed cases: 6,867,960 U.S. death toll: 200,182 (as of 9/22/20, footnote 1) As a result, this August looked different than any other in the history of American higher education, Read More