Even small craft distilleries should have an indoor air quality safety plan Concerns about indoor air quality and safety during the distillation process have always existed. Moonshiners hid their stills far from their residences not only to hide from the law but to protect their families and private property from harsh fumes and possibly fire. Read More
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When one thinks of early American landmarks, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate, Maryland’s State House in Annapolis, and the US Capitol in Washington, DC, are among the many national colonial period treasurers that come to mind. Not only are the structures themselves significant for their history and longevity, but so, too, are the resources used to construct them. The fact that these buildings have literally stood the test of time speaks to the durability of their primary building material: brick.
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In the age of cyber threats and massive security violations, business owners and corporations must manage their clients’ and customers’ paper records with the utmost care. Client records often contain confidential or sensitive data so must be disposed of by permanent means. Burning, pulping, and shredding are the most popular methods but shredding, by far, is the optimal choice in terms of efficiency and environmental safety.
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Beginning with the first attempt at crop cultivation around 7000 B.C., humans have devised various and diverse methods to prevent insects from eating and destroying valued harvests. Removing bugs by hand, planting insect-resistant varieties, even planting during different phases of the moon, were all options used by individuals to varying affect. Chemicals, in their natural form, were used as well. Large-scale efforts for pesticide use were being made by the 1940s; applications of sulfur were used to combat powdery mildew in Britain, followed by the introduction of water-insoluble substances to target the Colorado beetle. By WW II, pesticides were still weak, with only about 30 in existence, until DDT was initiated as the manufactured chemical of choice and became widely used in the 1950s.
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In 1872, John W. and Isaiah Hyatt patented the first injection-molding machine which used a plunger to inject plastic into a mold via a heated cylinder.
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Metal casting has been an essential necessity since iron was first discovered around 2000 BC. As individual and community need for metal parts grew, commercial manufacturing emerged. America’s first iron foundry was established near Lynn, Massachusetts in 1642
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Hair dye. It is ubiquitous in today’s society. Thousands of years ago, the ancient Egyptians used henna and other plant-based resources to tint their hair, skin, and nails.
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Remedying poor workplace indoor air quality is more of a modern notion, one that did not become a driving force within the medical, environmental, and clean air policy communities until many years after pollution as a healthcare concern became a nationwide talking point.
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The potential for dust particulates to ignite and create a flash fire or explosion is a constant hazard in just about every industry. The reason is that just about everything, including wood, has the potential to be combustible when in dust form. Because they are solids, the dusts and powders that settle onto equipment, in passageways, and in nooks and crannies of a manufacturing plant, accumulate.
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When most people hear the word “styrene”, they think first about the consumer scare in recent years of chemical leaching into our food and drink via plastic cups and containers. But the real threat – one that affects millions of people on a daily basis – is found at work, not in the kitchen
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