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HOSPITAL RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS, ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS KNOW THAT TO CONTROL INFECTIOUS DISEASES DURING HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE CONSTRUCTION – YOU NEED A STRONG BARRIER – GLOBAL WRAP® PROVIDES THE VERY BEST BARRIER
Some 75% of health care construction involves expansion or remodeling of existing structures.
Hospital, medical, clinical, nursing home, assisted living and other patient care facility construction and renovation architects, engineers contractors know that they need to control infectious diseases to protect patient health. It is the “standard of care” and avoids liability and (more importantly) avoids hurting and killing patients with infectious diseases).
Let Global Wrap® LLC give you the barrier you need. Careful health care construction planners know to install a Class 1 environmental containment that is drum-tight, using 12 mil plastic. That is Global Wrap®. Help protect patients from preventable diseases and deaths from tuberculosis, SARS, measles, histoplasmosis, Legionnaire’s Disease and molds.
As the U.S. Center For Disease Control states in its Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities:
“Containment measures for dust and/or moisture control are dictated by the location of the construction site. Outdoor demolition and construction require actions to keep dust and moisture out of the facility (e.g., sealing windows and vents and keeping doors closed or sealed). Containment of dust and moisture generated from construction inside a facility requires barrier structures (either pre-fabricated or constructed of more durable materials as needed) and engineering controls to clean the air in and around the construction or repair site.”
CDC in its Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilitie provides seven examples of when barriers are required in health care construction:
1. Demolition of walls, wallboard, plaster, ceramic tiles, ceiling tiles, and ceilings
2. Removal of flooring and carpeting, windows and doors, and casework
3. Working with sinks and plumbing that could result in aerosolization of water in high-risk areas
4. Exposure of ceiling spaces for demolition and for installation or rerouting of utility services (e.g.,
rewiring, electrical conduction installation, HVAC ductwork, and piping)
5. Crawling into ceiling spaces for inspection in a manner that may dislodge dust
6. Demolition, repair, or construction of elevator shafts
7. Repairing water damage
http://www.premierinc.com/safety/topics/guidelines/downloads/cdc-guide-environ-ic-12-03-03.pdf
CDC in its Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities: speaks of the need for experts to be involved to present construction-caused diseases, particularly among patients with suppressed immune systems:
“Architects, engineers, construction contractors, environmental health scientists, and industrial hygienists historically have directed the design and function of hospitals’ physical plants. Increasingly, however, because of the growth in the number of susceptible patients and the increase in construction projects, the involvement of hospital epidemiologists and infection-control professionals is required. These experts help make plans for building, maintaining, and renovating health-care facilities to ensure that the adverse impact of the environment on the incidence of health-care–associated infections is minimal.
The following are examples of adverse outcomes that could have been prevented had such experts been involved in the planning process: a) transmission of infections caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, varicella-zoster virus (VZV), and measles (i.e., rubeola) facilitated by inappropriate air-handling systems in health-care facilities;6 b) disease outbreaks caused by Aspergillus spp.,17–19 Mucoraceae,20 and Penicillium spp. associated with the absence of environmental controls during periods of health-care facility-associated construction;21 c) infections and/or colonizations of patients and staff with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium [VRE] and Clostridium difficile acquired indirectly from contact with organisms present on environmental surfaces in health-care facilities;22–25 and d) outbreaks and pseudoepidemics of legionellae,26, 27 Pseudomonas aeruginosa,28–30 and the nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM)31, 32 linked to water and aqueous solutions used in health-care facilities. The purpose of this guideline is to provide useful information for both health-care professionals and engineers in efforts to provide a safe environment in which quality health care may be provided to patients. The recommendations herein provide guidance to minimize the risk for and prevent transmission of pathogens in the indoor environment.”
http://www.premierinc.com/safety/topics/guidelines/downloads/cdc-guide-environ-ic-12-03-03.pdf
See the full text of CDC’s guide at http://www.premierinc.com/safety/topics/guidelines/downloads/cdc-guide-environ-ic-12-03-03.pdf
For more, see the article in Engineered Systems magazine, http://www.esmagazine.com/Articles/Cover_Story/6917fb74a2da8010VgnVCM100000f932a8c0____
Your Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) team’s research should convince you that you need to use the best to protect patients. Don’t use thinner plastic installed by amateurs (Visqueen), which is subject to tears and leaks.
Call Global Wrap® to arrange for our skilled, trained technicians to install a barrier in your project.
Global Wrap® -- there is no substitute. Specify “Global Wrap or equivalent.”
For more on the need for use of barriers in preventing mold, asbestos, lead or PCB problems during hospital construction work, please see http://www.globalwrap.com/environmentalcontainment/moldwarning.html
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