NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

uildings, because of this mold and mildew.
Which you cannot see often times, because in
between walls and ceilings that they are just
not in apparent, people start getting sick and
you just don’t know why.
Also mold can in very extreme instances
could promote wood rote and that’s another
thing you need to be concerned about, specially
because workers have a lot of scaffolding on
our buildings. And they think that the
scaffolding is working well and if you have
nails, for example, in that scaffolding that
are in stainless steel, guess what? They’ll
start to lyed.
Some of the health and safety issues that
touch the perimeter, prolong the effects of
high heat and humidity on workers. And it’s
really not established, I mean, I know we’ve
done some research for heat stress, but I don’t
think we’ve done it enough. And I don’t think
we’d looked in environments such as ours, where
it’s hot all year round. Not just in the
summer.
There is a lack of federal standards for
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