There will come a time when your commercial cleaning business is contacted by a potential client who needs you to take on a not-so-general cleaning operation. There has been an incident and there are biohazardous substances involved, likely including human waste or bodily fluids. It's a job nobody really wants, but how you handle it is extremely important. But first, what is a biohazard? A biological hazard is any biological material that presents a threat to human health. Th

Mixing chemicals is never a good idea, unless you know what you're doing and are fully prepared for the reaction you will get. But, did you know that mixing bleach with alcohol will create chloroform? In fact, any chlorinated compound that is reacted with any one of a wide range of organic molecules will create chloroform. This types of chemicals are often found stored close to each other in peoples homes and the dangers of mixing them, even accidentally, are very real. Somet

Due to the way we live and work, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can be found everywhere around us, most of the time. VOC is a classification given to certain chemicals that easily and quickly evaporate and develop into odorous gases and vapours that can significantly increase the accumulation of potentially hazardous substances in the air, especially when released indoors. Formaldehyde and terpenes are well known examples of VOCs. A lot of these VOCs, and others like them,

Solvents have been in use for many years across a wide range of industries. Most of the products that we use every day are created using solvents in the production process. This includes chemical manufacture, obviously, but also your daily food and beverages. All of these industries and more use solvents in their production processes Food and beverages, paints and coatings, cosmetics and personal care items, printer inks, dyes and pigments, adhesives, aerosols, and yes, even

Plastic has been in use for many years across many different industries. We use it in pretty much everything that we produce, from cars to water pipes and houses to our mobile phones and even teabags. There are so many ways we can use plastic to make our lives easier. So, what's the problem? Well, there are a few answers to that question. First, there is just so much of it Globally we go through hundreds of thousands of plastic bags, bottles and other packaging every day. And

While it's true that governments around the world have already begun to take action against the use of arsenic, mercury and lead, it's also true that these toxic heavy metals have already seeped into the ground around us and worked their way into our food chains. The concerns All three of these heavy metals are highly toxic to human health and cause a very wide range of detrimental effects on our bodies, especially in young children. Some of these health problems only occur a

Our health, and the increasingly fragile health of our environment, has been at risk for a while now from an unexpected quarter. Most of the products we use around our homes or offices to clean or improve the smell of a dirty, dusty workplace are scented. And that's great. What's not great is that fact that we get these scented products through creating a synthetic chemicals. Chemicals like: Galaxolide (or 1,3,4,6,7,8-hexahydro-4,6,6,7,8,8,-hexamethyl-cyclopenta[g]benzopyran

We all know that air pollution is bad for us and our environment, but it's now been confirmed as the number one threat to human health across the globe. It's been linked directly to early brain development problems among other frighteningly severe detrimental health effects in humans. What's even more frightening is the fact that we usually don't really know what we're breathing in at any given time. Air pollution is a silent, invisible assassin slowly wearing us down before