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What Is an Industrial Hygienist?

AIHA

Industrial Hygiene: Science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, prevention, and control of those environmental factors or stresses arising in or from the workplace which may cause sickness, impaired health and well being, or significant discomfort among workers or among citizens of the community.

Industrial hygienists are scientists and engineers committed to protecting the health and safety of people in the workplace and the community.

A professional industrial hygienist is a person possessing either a baccalaureate degree in engineering, chemistry, or physics or a baccalaureate degree in a closely related biological or physical science from an accredited college or university, who also has a minimum of three years of industrial hygiene experience. A completed doctoral in a related physical, biological or medical science or in related engineering can be substituted for two years of the three-year requirement. A completed master’s degree in a related physical or biological science or in related engineering can be substituted for one year of the three-year requirement. Under no circumstances can more than two years of graduate training be applied toward the three-year period.

Read more about Industrial Hygienist at AIHA website

The American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA) is one of the largest international associations serving the needs of occupational and environmental health and safety professionals practicing industrial hygiene in industry, government, labor, academic institutions, and independent organizations.

Gary Gilman, CMRS – Council-certified Microbial Remediation Supervisor and President of SteamMaster Restoration and Cleaning together with 4 Production Managers attended a webinar on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 on ‘Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Indoor Mold’

Our team joined editors J. David Miller, PhD, and Donald M. Weekes, CIH, CSP, and section manager Harriet Ammann, PhD, DABT, for an in-depth discussion of the bestselling mold resource, Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Indoor Mold.

The webinar took a deeper look into concepts, ideas and theories that went into the Mold Book. The Mold Book was discussed in four sections. Section 1, “Underlying Principles and Background for Evaluation and Control” was the topic of the first roundtable discussion, along with a presentation of new information and studies released since the Mold Book was published in 2008.

The Many Uses of Cryo, or Dry Ice Blasting

Cryo Cleaning and Blasting, or dry ice blasting, is a state-of-the-art method that has many uses in mold remediation, restoration services and residential and commercial cleaning. It is idea because it is environmentally friendly, chemical free and safe to use in many applications, including the food industry.

Cryo Blasting propels rice sized particles of food-grade frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice, at a high velocity. A compressed air supply of 80 PSI/50 scfm may be used for the velocity. The dry ice subliminates when it comes in contact with the surface, turns from a solid into a gas and leaves no media residue to clean up at the end of projects. As compared to sand blasting or plastic bead blasting, there are no secondary contaminates such solvents or grit with dry ice.

The dry ice blasting permeates in hard-to-reach areas in attics and crawl spaces, so it is efficiently used in mold remediation and fire restoration. Mold contaminations are removed from wood and engineered wood products with innovative dry ice blasting techniques, and HEPA filters are utilized to safely filter out any contaminates. Soot and char contamination and odors are removed during fire restoration. It is gentle enough to dust smoke damage from books or effective enough to blast char from log beams.

Cryo Blasting can clean industrial equipment and surfaces, including generators and motors, piping, robotic equipment, ovens and kitchen areas. It removes construction adhesives and topical coatings from brick, stone, tile and concrete in commercial and residential hard surface cleaning. Graffiti, such as spray paint, is removed without damage to the surface below.

SteamMaster has been using dry ice blasting technology for several years. Please call 800-527-1253 or email gary@steammaster.com for more information.
Cryo Blasting is one of the most effective, innovative methods available for cleaning and restoration.

Before and after dry ice blasting

cold jet dry ice blasting unit