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Prevention of COVID-19 by legislation and guidelines is largely unsupported by evidence and appears to rely on Rules of Thumb in infection control procedures in healthcare.

COVID-19 Evidence based interventions. Social Distancing

June 8, 2020 in COVID-19 / Crisis management / IAQ / Industrial Ventilation / Infection Control / Occupational Hygiene / Research / Respiratory protection / Sources of information by admin

This blog is not intended as advice. It is for educational and research purposes only. Read this disclaimer first if you want to read this post. International air travel is perhaps the most important factor in the rapid spread of pandemics. It is not only the movement of infectious passengers […]

COVID-19 Aircraft ventilation design

April 8, 2020 in COVID-19 / IAQ / Industrial Ventilation / Infection Control / Sources of information by admin

One of the best gems I heard was linked from the ABC News website. It was a talk on 6 March 2020 Controlling Coronavirus in Australian with WHO Expert Dr Bruce Aylward to an audience of Australian health professionals. One of the important messages was the aggregation of COVID-19 cases […]

COVID-19 Queensland Hospitals

March 31, 2020 in COVID-19 / Crisis management / Industrial Ventilation / Infection Control tagged Brisbane / Bruce Aylward / COVID-19 hospitals / Queensland by admin

This blog is not intended as advice. It is for educational and research purposes only. Read this disclaimer first if you want to read this post. The use of protective sneeze screens in shops is interesting because it may actually increase the COVID-19 risk. A few years ago I researched […]

COVID-19 – Woolworths protective screens – why they will not ...

March 23, 2020 in COVID-19 / Crisis management / Industrial Ventilation / Infection Control / Myths / Respiratory protection / Toxicology tagged cough / protective screens / shop ventilation / sneeze / Woolworths by admin

Direct ventilation of the toilet bowls will give vastly reduce COVID-19 faecal aerosol exposure. But is it practicable?

COVID-19 extraction ventilation of toilets?

March 13, 2020 in COVID-19 / Industrial Ventilation tagged 2019-nCoV / air dryer / bioaerosol / Coronavirus / faecal / fecal / lavatory / local exhaust ventilation / loo / paper towel / toilet by admin

Safety and Health coerns opften collide. In the end the focus is on safety despite overwhelming evidence that health is a bigger issue.

When Safety is not Health

September 17, 2010 in Dermatitis / Heat Stress / Historical / Incidents / Industrial Ventilation / Myths / Occupational Hygiene / War stories tagged safety by admin

Principals of Occupational Health and Hygiene in Mandarin — The AIOH text "Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene, An Introduction" has been translated into Mandarin for use in China and will be launched on Monday September 6th 2010 at Griffith University, Brisbane.

OHS book in Mandarin

August 25, 2010 in Industrial Ventilation / Occupational Hygiene / Sources of information tagged book / CDC / China by admin

Whole House fans have been around for over 40 years and offer a way to make a dramatic

Whole House Fans

February 5, 2009 in Industrial Ventilation / UV tagged fans / Heat Stress / Industrial Ventilation by admin

I had an invite from Dr Moshe Pritsker, the Editor-in-Chief to contribute to the new Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), the first video journal for biological research accepted in PubMed.