Hospitals

Over the last few months IAQ & Duct Cleaning Enterprise have taken an increasingly high interest in indoor air quality (IAQ) issues. In early 2009 IAQ & Duct Cleaning Enterprise recommended that hospitals develop an IAQ plan as part of the facilities “Safe Environment of Care Inspection Process”.

IAQ & Duct Cleaning Enterprise would like to  implementate  the following :

•Management of Safety Risks. Requires facilities to “conduct proactive risk assessments that evaluate the potential adverse impact of buildings, grounds, equipment, occupants, and internal physical systems on the safety and health of patients, staff, and other people coming to the facility”.

• Utility Management Plan. Requires each facility to “reduce the potential for hospital-acquired illness to be transmitted through the utility systems”.

• Requires facilities to maintain, test, and inspect its utility systems. Requires documentation of inventory and maintenance of utility components, consistent with maintenance requirements identified in the utility management plan 

• Requires facilities to establish and maintain an appropriate environment,
including verification that current “ventilation provides for acceptable levels of temperature and humidity and eliminates odors”.

•IAQ Management During Construction.Requires facilities to use “risk criteria that address the impact of demolition, construction, or renovation on air quality requirements, infection control and utility requirements”.

• Addresses Measuring and Improving Activities related to the conditions in the environment.These requirements have been the standard operating procedure of IAQ & Duct Cleaning Enterprise in commercial, industrial and health care facilities since our incorporation. Furthermore, the regular comprehensive inspection reports not only support IAQ & Duct Cleaning Enterprise accreditation by way of documentation, but also, prove due diligence and build a valuable resource should the facility ever be the subject of speculative plaintiff litigation. In practice, regular Proactive Monitoring (biannual, nine-monthly, or annual) appears to strike the optimum balance between cost and usefulness and with such comprehensive testing.

Healthcare Facilities & Hospitals employing programs such as IAQ & Duct Cleaning Enterprise Proactive IAQ Inspection and Monitoring Program and IAQ & Duct Cleaning Enterprise IAQ Monitoring During Construction will meet local, state and all currently known national standards.