Navigating the Rise of Bacterial Pneumonia: Insights and Precautions

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Navigating the Rise of Bacterial Pneumonia: Insights and Precautions As winter’s chill sets in, health professionals and organizations brace for the annual uptick in respiratory illnesses, including pneumonia. This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported a noticeable increase in pneumonia diagnoses, especially among children—a trend that IBEC is closely monitoring.…

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NIOSH Hierarchy of Controls for Public Transport

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In our latest CLEAN Lessons Learned Session – Making Confidence Our Travel Companion: Managing the environment to reduce public transport transmission, we discussed how the NIOSH Hierarchy of Controls can be implemented in public transport safety.  The NIOSH Hierarchy of Controls proposes the following control methods:  Elimination.  Substitution.  Engineering controls.  Administrative controls. PPE.  Each of…

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Why Did It Take So Long To Accept COVID Is Airborne?

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This is an extract from our August CLEAN Lessons Learned session “Getting Serious About Airborne Infection Transmission” where Dr. Lidia Morawska gave a presentation about the airborne nature of the COVID-19 virus and others. At our CLEAN Lessons Learned Session: “Getting Serious About Airborne Infection Transmission,” we discussed the reasons why it took so long…

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