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Lee Senter owns and operates both a cleaning and restoration business in Toronto, Ontario. He has been in the cleaning and restoration business since 1979. Lee has been active in the field of green cleaning since long before it became mainstream and has a passion for raising the health and safety bar in the cleaning and restoration industry. He is part of the IICRC S520 and S540 Standard Consensus Bodies. In addition to being a business owner, Lee performs a couple of hundred flooring and carpet inspections a year, writes specifications for carpet maintenance and teaches six different IICRC approved classes: CCT, CMT, UFT, HST, WRT and ASD.
Howard Wolf, a certified master restorer, has been in the cleaning, restoration and construction industries since 1984. He is the Principal and founding member of HW3 Group and is Past Chairman of the ANSI Standards Committee for the Institute for Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC).He formerly sat on the board of directors of IICRC (2001-2009) and was Chairman of the S500 Water Damage Standard (1999-2013) and Chairman of Standards (2012-2018). He is also the current chair of the new standard writing body S550 Commercial Drying Standard.
12/14/2018.
Summary by IICRC of important changes in S520-2015 third edition. We highlight 3 specific issues for discussion. We number them #1, #2, #3.
We’ve labelled 3 items in the IICRC presentation for discussion:
#1. “Does not establish procedures or criteria for assessing mold contamination in an indoor environment.” (But doesn’t S520 do just that throughout by defining Fungal Contamination Conditions and defining Assessment based on Conditions?)
#2. “It is recommended that an HVAC system not be used for dehumidification or drying during a mold remediation project”. (If the work area is properly contained why shut off the AC?)
#3 “IEPs may perform Post Remediation Verification (PRV).” (Why is it that remediators cannot perform their own QA/QC to make sure that their work has not left the indoor air cross contaminated?)
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Why 5-Star. Section on S520-2015 is about changes to S520 in the latest edition. Several important items for discussion.
1-5 Stars System
- Positive: Greater than or equal to 4 (4.0 – 5.0) MUST READ
- Neutral: Greater than or equal to 3 but less than 4 (3.0 – 3.9)
- Negative: Less than 3 (2.9 – 0)
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#1. “Does not establish procedures or criteria for assessing mold contamination in an indoor environment.” (But doesn’t S520 do just that throughout by defining Fungal Contamination Conditions and defining Assessment based on Conditions?)
#2. “It is recommended that an HVAC system not be used for dehumidification or drying during a mold remediation project”. (If the work area is properly contained why shut off the AC? Elevating the temperature increases bacterial and mold growth.)
#3 “IEPs may perform Post Remediation Verification (PRV).” (Why is it that remediators cannot perform their own QA/QC including air sampling to make sure that their work has not left the indoor air cross contaminated? For many small jobs and where the problem is obvious (not insurance claims) there is no money to pay for a third party IEP to write a protocol and come back and inspect/test. There is no other to determine exposure/ health risk than to test the air because exposure is from breathing the air. That is not saying that air sampling should be the focus of PRV.)