2761. Records Management for businesses
April 03, 2013
Records management is a never ending process. It helps to have a clear policy and effective tools that integrate with each other, both within each department that holds records and even across the enterprise. Consider your existing policies before you begin, and rectify weaknesses or inconsistencies...
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2762. Identifying asbestos products
March 27, 2013
Identifying asbestos can be difficult because the products that contain asbestos look the same as products that do not. One of the most common places that asbestos can be found is in construction material. Asbestos was used as a construction material for residential and commercial buildings from 192...
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2763. The disposal of asbestos waste
March 27, 2013
Asbestos, which is used in everything from furnace ducts to floor tiles, can break down into fibers that are 1,200 times smaller than a human hair and cause health problems when inhaled. Because of this, safe and proper disposal is essential to ensure that friable (solid material that has been broke...
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2764. How to check if a floor may have asbestos tiles
March 27, 2013
A house containing old vinyl or linoleum floors installed prior to the 1980s can be suspected of containing asbestos fibres. Because the only way to tell for certain if a floor contains asbestos is to have a sample looked at by a lab, resulting in a potentially hazardous removal of some tiles, most ...
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2765. Testing asbestos in the ceiling
March 27, 2013
Asbestos is a mineral fibre that was added to a variety of building products and insulation materials until the 1970s. After research showed that people who were exposed to asbestos and breathed high levels of the asbestos fibres were at greater risk of developing lung cancer and other diseases, use...
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2766. Working with white asbestos
March 27, 2013
The term "asbestos" refers to a set of minerals that can be separated into fibres for industrial uses. The US Department of Labor reports that asbestos fibres are particularly useful because they are resistant to heat and fire. The three types of asbestos used commercially are white, brown and blue ...
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2767. Asbestos Abatement in peoples homes
March 26, 2013
People think of their homes as a place to shelter them from the outside world. A home is meant to make a person feel safe and provide refuge from the threats of the outside world. Unfortunately, many homes, particularly those built prior to 1985, have a threat contained within their walls. Asbestos ...
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2768. Hiring the best abatement services
March 26, 2013
Once the inspector has detected the location of the asbestos in your building, the second stage is to build an abatement plan. Asbestos abatement refers to the procedure of removing or minimizing the health dangers of asbestos in a building through several prescribed actions including removal, enclo...
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2769. How Asbestos Abatement or Removal Works in a project
March 26, 2013
When you start looking for an asbestos abatement removal contractor, it may not yet have fully sunk in that you have them in your home or office building. Asbestos is a building material that was commonly used decades ago, but breathing in these dust has been linked to cancer and numerous other heal...
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2770. How to best hire and fire staff
March 26, 2013
Hiring and managing staff in a small business can be a tricky affair. One must do so with care as employees tend to have a big impact on the performance, culture and whether it succeeds or fails. Hiring the wrong people can be a costly mistake both in the long run and short run.
It is not ea...
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Author: Innes Donaldson
