Gary Gilman, CMRS is your best resource for Mold Remediation

Gary Gilman, CMRS

Indoor Air Quality issues is a growing problem for commercial and residential property owners. When the is a Air Quality issue, it can be a very challenging task for a commercial or residential property owners or managers to know what type of environmental professional can help with their problem. It is more difficult to know who can help when everyone out there is claiming to be IAQ or Mold Experts. There are no federal regulations and only a few states have controls.

Fortunately there is an independent certifying body for IAQ professionals that the public can seek to distinguish between a real professional in the field versus those who claim to be the ‘expert’. The American Council for Accredited Certification (ACAC) has more than 4,000 certified professional in the United States and abroad at the moment.

SteamMaster’s President and Owner, Gary Giman is a Council-certified Microbial Remediation Supervisor (CMRS). Gary has successfully remediated numerous mold removal projects in Vail, Breckenridge, Aspen, Snowmass, Winter Park, Granby and several other mountain communities in Colorado.

Here are some CMRS qualifications:

A CMRS can help design and maintain effective containment to control and safely clean, treat or remove structures and contents affected by microbial contamination. A Council-certified Microbial Remediation Supervisor (CMRS) can design remediation protocols or follow established protocols and industry standards. A CMRS has verified knowledge of the microbial remediation field.

The CMRS examination covers the most respected reference texts in the industry. Candidates for the CMRS must know the important industry standards. They must be familiar with scientific principles governing mold and the indoor environment. They must understand the most common practices and protocols used by remediators. They must be familiar with the equipment used in mold remediation. They must be aware of legal issues affecting their work

Each CMRS has demonstrated at least five (5) years experience in mold remediation and mold removal in one or more of the following settings:

Offices and commercial buildings
Industrial structures
Government facilities
Schools and public buildings
Healthcare facilities
Residential structures

To earn the Council-certified Microbial Remediation Supervisor designation, every candidate must:

Demonstrate at least five (5) years of verifiable field experience in microbial remediation
Pass a rigorous examination based on broad industry knowledge rather than a course curriculum
Earn the unanimous approval of the CMRS certification board
Re-certify every two years
Participate in 20 hours of professional development activities each year
Maintain the highest ethical standards

The CMRS certification is accredited by the Council for Engineering and Scientific Specialty Boards (CESB), a nationally recognized independent accreditation body. ACAC certifications are the ONLY designations in the indoor air quality field to earn CESB accreditation.

Mold problems?

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