For people working at home due to COVID-19, sealing the house to make it more energy efficient may bring with it the risk from elevated radon. COVID-19 – A danger in making homes energy efficientJuly 13, 2020 in COVID-19 / IAQ / Radiation / War stories tagged radon by admin
Compaisons can be made between the medical response to the Boston Bombings and Cyclone Tracey. In both, triage and staff support and initiatives significantly helped, though other differences were enormous. Medical response from the Boston bombingApril 23, 2013 in Crisis management / War stories tagged Boston / Boston bombing by admin
Todays communiocations tools like Twitter and Google Maps bring an immediacy to world events that tends to keep ahead of most news feeds. The fall of Tripoli is a historic event that has been bought alive with Twitter. TripoliAugust 22, 2011 in Historical / War stories tagged Google Maps / Triploi / Twittre by admin
[Translate] I developed an interest in ultraviolet when I was given the role of University Radiation Officer at the University of Queensland. A previous URO, Dr Don Robertson (1914-2006) was part of the Department of Physics and looked after the (unmarked) sandstone Radon Lab on the Great Court at the university. […] Robertson Berger Ultraviolet meterDecember 1, 2010 in Historical / Occupational Hygiene / Radiation / War stories tagged Robertson / ultraviolet 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 HealthSeptember 17, 2010 in Dermatitis / Heat Stress / Historical / Incidents / Industrial Ventilation / Myths / Occupational Hygiene / War stories tagged safety by admin
[Translate] Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) used to be bought at a chemist’s shop as purple crystals. Way back, when Adam was a boy, it was included in snake bite kits Potassium PermanganateFebruary 9, 2009 in Occupational Hygiene / Uncategorized / War stories tagged manganese / mining / Occupational Hygiene / potassium permanganate by admin
1 [Translate] The toxicity of crystalline silica is well established and the toxicity of glass fibres is fairly well know. However the toxicity of amorphous glass dust is less investigated. I was given a copy of Karl Kruszelnicki’s book “Science is Golden” for Christmas. The chapter ”A Glass Act” discusses the […] Amorphous glass toxicityDecember 28, 2008 in Myths / Toxicology / War stories tagged glass / Toxicology by admin
[Translate] Rum Jungle in the Northern Territory of Australia was a fairly wild place in the 1950’s with a number of uranium mines and a lot of people who only wanted to be known by their first names. The legend is that the workers from the mine would sometimes demonstrate […] Atomic CocktailsJune 16, 2008 in Radiation / War stories tagged Radiation / Rum Jungle / Uranium by admin
[Translate] It was 1973 and I was finishing off my undergraduate degree. A change from electrical engineering to physics had meant I had one subject to go and I took a job at the nearby Chrysler car factory Industrial dermatitisApril 25, 2008 in Dermatitis / War stories tagged Dermatitis by admin
[Translate] Another holiday job gave me insights into heat stress. I was in high school and my holiday job was helping an electrician install fire alarms in a new school. My job was to get into Installing insulationApril 25, 2008 in Fibres / Heat Stress / War stories tagged Fibreglass / Heat Stress by admin