IAQ Radio

EPISODE315 - Pam Weigand, Temporary Worker Issues & Answers

Just about every disaster restoration company needs temporary help from time to time. Most don't think much about it until the need arises and that can lead to problems. Pam Weigand has been in the staffing industry since 1989 when she was responsible for staffing contract security for various sites throughout the Greater Pittsburgh area. In 1993, Pam was provided a great opportunity to open a branch operation in Pittsburgh for Crown Services, Inc. a Midwest Regional Staffing Service. Over the next 20 years, Pam built a multimillion dollar regional operation to include staffing for the restoration industry, the mortgage, hospitality industry, warehouse and manufacturing for administrative, industrial, technical and management personnel. While Pam predominantly was responsible for staffing in the Pittsburgh Region, the branch also partnered with companies in North Carolina, New Jersey and Virginia.
In January 2013, Pam founded Krown Employment Services, LLC, a full services staffing company. Located in the Deutschtown section of the North Side of Pittsburgh, Krown Employment Services, LLC provides clerical, industrial, technical and management personnel to business partners throughout the Greater Pittsburgh area. It is not by mistake that the Krown office is deeply rooted in the historic, ethnically enriched Deutschtown community as Pam has deep roots on the staffing industry in the Greater Pittsburgh area where she has amassed more than 1000 clients and recruited more than 50000 applicants. Pam also has deep roots in the restoration world and is the wife of former IAQ Radio guest, IICRC board member and veteran IICRC instructor Bill Weigand.
LEARN MORE about the ins and outs of temporary staffing with Pam Weigand this week on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE314 - Millie Washington, Bill Doan & Lew Migliore

IICRC Standards Update
& ANSI/IICRC S800-2014 Standard & Reference Guide for Professional Inspection of Textile Floorcovering
This week we welcome Mili Washington who has been The Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) Standards Director since June 2011. Mile stepped into a tough job and has worked hard to streamline the standards development process and strategy at the IICRC, work toward American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approval for new and revised ANSI/IICRC standards, and use more digital tools to make virtual collaboration really come to life. Prior to joining IICRC Mili was manager of standards and guidelines for the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA).
Bill Doan is the ANSI/IICRC S800 Consensus Body chair, he retired in 2007 after a 43-year career in textile fibers (Dupont) and carpet care (Steamway, Shaw). He served as Dupontâ??s point man in its outreach efforts to the carpet care industry during the time of the launch of Stainmaster® carpet in the mid 1980s, and was recognized as the first Cleanfax magazine â??Person of the Yearâ?? in 1989.
Lewis G. â??Lewâ?? Migliore, ANSI/IICRC S800 Consensus Body vice-chair, is president of LGM & Associates Technical Flooring Services in Dalton, GA. He has been associated with the floor covering industry for more than 43 years. Lew is the author and columnist of â??Flooring Forensicsâ?? for Floor Focus Magazine a regular on Floor Radio as â??The Industry Troubleshooterâ?? and is the publisher of The Commercial Flooring Report distributed to over 100,000 readers worldwide.
LEARN MORE about the most widely used floor covering in America with our guests this week on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE313 - Ulla Haverinen-Shaughnessy, D. Sc.

Cleaning Verification Research & Standards - Dr. Haverinen-Shaughnessy is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Health and Wellbeing Environmental Health Department (THL), Kuopio, Finland, a Docent of Engineering, Healthy Buildings, Tampere University of Technology and a Visiting Professor at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has done extensive research on IAQ, health, dampness, remediation effectiveness and testing post cleaning.. This week we intend to focus on her recent research on ATP as a Marker for Surface Contamination in Schools and a Potential Approach to the Measurement of Cleaning Effectiveness. This approach was adopted in the new ISSA Clean Standard for K-12 Schools. ATP continues to be more accepted in the cleaning and restoration industry, LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE312 - Brian Baker, A Canadian Perspective of IEQ, HVAC

Brian Baker is owner of Custom Vac Limited of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mr. Baker has been in the HVAC and IAQ industry for almost 40 years and is a huge education advocate. His list of training and certifications is extensive as is his hands on experience in this industry. We got to know Brian through his passion for IAQ Radio and realized he has something special to offer our listeners. Knowledge of HVAC is vital to evaluating IAQ issues and very few have Mr. Baker's combination of experience and education. We want to know what his real world experience has taught him about the state of IAQ in Canada, how it compares to the US, what works and what doesn't and much more. Brian taught HVACR related courses for the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) Winnipeg Chapter. In 2009 he opened Westech Energy Training Center where he currently teaches 5th Class Power Engineering, Preparation for Residential HVACR, Refrigerant Handling Certification, and manages the education/training for RSES Winnipeg Chapter via an on-line Internet delivery platform. Join us this week on IAQ Radio and LEARN MORE about how IAQ and HVAC come together in the real world.

EPISODE311 - Jack White, Rainbow International Restoration

As Vice President of Technical Services at Rainbow International Jack White is is responsible for training, technical services and research & development. Mr. White is a 35 year veteran of the cleaning and restoration industry who has worked his way up through the ranks. He holds numerous industry certifications and is an IICRC accredited instructor in Water Damage Restoration, Carpet Cleaning and Odor Control. He is also a Member - National Panel of Consumer Arbitrators, handling disputes for Better Business Bureau. Mr. White is a current member of the Restoration Industry Association (RIA) Board of Directors and has served on numerous technical committees at RIA and other industry associations. Join us this week to LEARN MORE from a cleaning and restoration industry veteran Jack White!

EPISODE310 - The Year in Review, Z-Man, Radio Joe & Dr. Weyel

This week on IAQ Radio The Zman and Radio Joe are going to review the year 2013 with highlights from shows, review of key news articles and a discussion of where we see opportunities for 2014. IAQ Radio produced another 41 shows in 2013 and we had some valuable information for our listeners. We started the new year with Eckardt Johanning, M.D. and finished with Tony Wheelright the new IICRC Chairman. In between we had tremendous interviews with people like Ralph Moon, Ph.D., Sam Rashkin, Chief Architect for USDOE, Janet Stout, Ph.D world renowned expert on Legionnella, Irene Grant, M.D. on fungal infections, Barney Burroughs, CIAQP and filtration guru, our own Dr. Dietrich Weyel on Advanced IEQ and particle physics, Attorneys Paul Zeniewicz & Dennis Beaver, Dina Dwyer Owens, Franchiser, Entrepreneur and Undercover Boss, Wei Tang, PhD, Richard Shaughnessy, PhD and Bill Sothern, CIH on the ABC News The Lookout premier, CIH and many, many more that we want to thank publicly. A full list of shows and guests for 2013 is available at the end of this newsletter. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio when the Z-man, Radio Joe and Dr. Weyel review 2013.

EPISODE309- Tony Wheelwright, IICRC Chairman - IICRC Past, Present & Future

This week on IAQ Radio Tony Wheelwright the new IICRC Chairman joins us to discuss the past present and future at IICRC. Mr. Wheelwright joined the board of directors in 2009. Prior to his retirement, he ran a multi-truck cleaning and inspection service for 36 years. Mr. Wheelwright has been hard at work for several years helping Past Chair Darrell Paulson engineer many of the big changes that have occurred. Some have been very successful, some have not been so successful and some are yet to be determined. We look forward to being one of the first to interview Tony in his new role. Its great to see him come out from behind the scenes and take some credit for the recent changes. Lest see what else he has in mind. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE308 - Tom Grillo, Kanomax USA

This week we are going to discuss IEQ testing equipment focusing on particle counters and some new odor detection equipment with Tom Grillo of Kanomax USA. Tom Grillo started his career in the IAQ test and measurement industry as National Sales, Marketing, and Technical Service Manager at Airflow Technical Products, Inc. in 1991. He was instrumental in commercializing aspects of ASHRAE110 testing related devices that are still sold to this day by Kanomax USA. Tom was with the environmental engineering group at Hatch Mott McDonald, working with large remediation projects where he was directly involved with outdoor air quality projects and emissions monitoring. He was also a project manager with BT Western Corp, in the automotive industry managing the validation processes and vendor audits for new product development for various car makers. Tom is currently working with various test service organizations, universities and commercial partners to help improve IAQ related testing equipment and provide more access to information for the consultants, contractors, and end users of these types of testing instrumentation. LEARN MORE this week on IAQ Radio!

EPISODE307 - Flashback Friday to Episode 109 with Rachel Herz

EPISODE306- Dietrich Weyel, Carbon Monoxide & Other Noxious Gas Exposure

Dr. Weyel will summarize the science and knowledge of carbon monoxide over the past one hundred years. The detrimental effects of carbon monoxide are well known but it appears even today there is a great deal of confusion about the effects of carbon monoxide exposure. This week on IAQ Radio we are going to ensure some important information that very few possess and fewer understand is recorded and memorialized forever. Dr. Dietrich Weyel is our Technical Director and more importantly one of only a handful of people remaining from the heyday of the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Healthâ??s industrial hygiene program. Too often people say that someone has forgotten more than others know about a subject but in this case it is absolutely true and may even understate the issue. Dr. Weyel will discuss the literature from the masters of physiology and noxious gas exposures. LEARN MORE about the supervision of indoor environmental contracting this week on IAQ Radio.