Links - Sick Building Syndrome & Building Related Illness
  • A 'cure' for sick building syndrome
    Sick building syndrome may be successfully treated by installing ultraviolet lights in ventilation systems, researchers have said. Sick building syndrome is a term used to describe a range of symptoms suffered by office workers, such as headaches, fatigue, difficulties in concentrating and respiratory problems.
  • ADDRESSING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF INDOOR AIR QUALITY
    Good building ventilation creates comfortable and healthy indoor conditions. For thermal comfort ventilation, indoor spaces must receive a sufficient quantity of outdoor air that is warmed or cooled to satisfy human thermal comfort needs. Comfort ventilation is assessed by measuring occupant perceptions of indoor air quality, including their assessments of odors, thermal conditions, and the adequacy of ventilation. For health ventilation, indoor spaces must receive air that is free from hazardous chemical or microbiological contaminants.
  • Air doctors spread word about `sick building syndrome'
    Your eyes itch. Your head aches. And the weird thing is, you only feel this way at work. Are you allergic to your boss? Possibly. Or it could be another case of "sick building syndrome."
  • Firms should prepare for 'sick building' claims
    Although outdoor air pollution has been the focus of numerous studies, debates and regulations for years, the question of whether the air in buildings contains pollutants harmful to humans is more recent.
  • Fungi suspected culprit in 'sick building syndrome'
    Molds and fungi growing inside buildings may be the source of indoor air-quality problems known as "sick building syndrome."
  • Healthy School Environments: Addressing the sick building syndrome
    Indoor air quality problems can strike any school. High probability other hospital staff affected by airborne moulds.
  • Household Fungus Contributes To "Sick Building Syndrome"
    ST. PAUL, MN (February 3, 1999) -- Have you found yourself suffering shortness of breath, headaches or are you just not feeling quite right, but you can't attribute it to any specific cause? Perhaps you've found it hard to concentrate and you feel fatigued easily, but haven't been able to figure out why. If you live or work in a house or building that has been flooded, or has sustained water damage, these symptoms may be a sign that you are affected by "sick building syndrome." Your environment may be toxic to your health, yet you probably have never even heard of one of the culprits, the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum.
  • Indoor Air Quality A Serious Problem
    We congratulate ourselves on virtually wiping out diseases such as diphtheria and pertussis through vaccination programs. However, the main spread of those illnesses was stopped by improved sanitation and hygiene systems: environmental improvements.
  • Is your job making you sick?(protection against common occupational hazards)(MindBody)
    For two years, 23-year-old Lateefah Hill has worked as a checker for a large grocery store in Washington, D.C. Hours of standing, pulling, grasping, lifting and bending to scan and pack groceries have taken a toll on her back, hands, wrists and fingers. "Sometimes my back aches so badly I can hardly stand it," Hill says. She also takes cosmetology classes, so she's doing more standing and bending to shampoo clients and repeatedly manipulating her fingers, hands and wrists to style hair. To relieve fatigue in her hands and fingers, Hill relies on over-the-counter painkillers, hot baths and muscle-relaxing creams.
  • Legionella bacteria in building environments
    This potentially deadly bacteria may kill as many as 7,000 Americans each year. An indoor air quality expert explains what the bacteria is, how it spreads and how it can be controlled.
  • Library's Air Taking Toll On Staffers
    PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) - Complaints about the air at the public library have become so widespread that nearly one in three staff members has missed work.
  • Microbiologics In The Workplace
    Indoor environments present a complex challenge when trying to determine the role of microbiologic organisms in causing workplace symptoms and disease.
  • Office Workers - Indoor Air Pollution - Sick Building Syndrom
    Associations between indoor air pollutant levels and self reported symptoms in workers in two office buildings were examined.
  • Regulators Struggle To Diagnose Sick Buildings While Offices Lack
    NEW CASTLE, Del. -- Brenda Minner says she was a healthy woman in her late 40s when she began working for Greenwood Trust Co. in the early 1990s. She went to her job every day at the bank's offices in New Castle, where it issues the Discover Card.
  • SAFETYLINE ESSENTIALS:
    More than 50 percent of the Australian workforce work in office environments. Some people suffer from specific complaints of ill health from causes that are difficult to pin-point and claim that the building is "sick".
  • Sick building syndrome
    Two former employees of the state public defender's office in Waukesha claim in a lawsuit they became sick from inhaling polluted air in this building. A recent Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling allows their case to be heard.
  • Sick Building Syndrome Linked To Certain Molds
    LONDON, ENGLAND -- Aug. 25, 1998 -- Certain types of fungal molds seem to be strongly associated with sick building syndrome, finds a study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Sick building syndrome was first recognized in 1982 and as yet no single cause has been identified. Symptoms typically include allergic rhinitis, breathing difficulties, headaches, flu and watering eyes.
  • SICK BUILDING SYNDROME: A POTPOURRI ANALYSIS
    If you have not yet dealt with issues relating to "sick building syndrome," you probably will in the near future, whether in a professional or personal capacity. In 1983, the World Health Organization defined sick building syndrome as "an excess of work related irritations of the skin and mucous membranes and other symptoms, including headache, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating, reported by workers in modern office buildings."
  • Sick Building Syndrome: The Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes
    It was 1976. Environmental issues like air and water quality were hitting the public consciousness for the first time.
  • Sick of ‘Sick Building Syndrome’
    L O N D O N, Sept. 22 — People who work in air-conditioned buildings are more than twice as likely to suffer respiratory problems as people who don't, French experts said Monday.
  • Solving Sick Building Syndrome
    Could your office be making you sick? If so, what could you do about it? These are questions addressed by Victoria Inglis from the University of Sydney in her doctoral thesis.
  • Something In The Air.
    Experts differ on whether 'sick-building syndrome' is legitimate If Dr. Edward Bernacki's office does not field a complaint once a day,there must not be something in the air.
  • Strict liability and sick building syndrome
    The applicability of strict liability to sick building syndrome (SBS) cases has been a contested issue in the decade or so that such cases have been litigated. To prevail on a strict liability theory, plaintiffs need not show misfeasance on the part of any person or entity, as they do in a traditional negligence case; the plaintiffs only must prove a defect or hazardous condition in the building or "product." The focus shifts from the acts of the defendants to the condition of the building. For that reason, strict liability is an attractive concept for SBS plaintiffs.
  • Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). Building Related Illness (BRI).
    These are terms that have recently made it to the forefront of environmental issues, usually as they relate to the workplace.The ambient air in the workplace and on airplanes has been studied and regulated. Current funding has been appropriated to further research the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) of public places. But the question has to be asked, "Can poor IAQ affect your home environment?" The answer is a resounding, "YES!"
  • Sick-building woes not only persist, they spread liability
    In a recent national survey, 24 percent of U.S. workers reported they believe they experienced air quality problems in the workplace. And the World Health Organization estimates that 30 percent of all buildings now harbor some sick-building syndrome problem.
  • 'Sick Building Syndrome': A Diagnosis in Search of a Disease
    Ten years ago, in 1988, I spoke at an international meeting of indoor-air specialists. There were 200 attendees. Six years later, when I spoke at a similar meeting held by the same organization, 10,000 people attended. Does this explosive increase in interest reflect an increase in our understanding of a new disorder, as has occurred in AIDS research?
  • Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)
    The term "sick building syndrome" (SBS) is used to describe situations in which building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a building, but no specific illness or cause can be identified. The complaints may be localized in a particular room or zone, or may be widespread throughout the building. In contrast, the term "building related illness" (BRI) is used when symptoms of diagnosable illness are identified and can be attributed directly to airborne building contaminants.
  • Tech microbiologist pinpoints mold spores in sick building in Fort Worth
    It isn't always boring chores that drive workers away - a sick building can accomplish the same thing in a single day. When Overton Centre Tower in Fort Worth was emptied recently, David C. Straus of Lubbock was called in to check it out with a device that pulls microscopic organisms from the air.
  • When the Workplace Makes You Sick
    Get headaches ever since you started working in that new highrise? Or maybe you've felt nauseous and dizzy the whole time you've had your sales job in that mall that just opened last year.
  • Your building could be making you sick
    You feel tired all the time, have a headache, itchy eyes and maybe a slight cough. You think allergies.
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