Archive:  August 2024

30
Aug
2021
How to Know If Old Paint Contains Lead?
August 30th, 2021 | in Other services
If you own, manage, live in, or have a business in an old building, you may be wondering if the paint contains lead.
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Renovating or removing asbestos in old building or facilities? Leave it to the professionals. Read more here.
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27
Aug
2019
A Focus on Dust and "HEPA"
August 27th, 2019 |
Silica dust and other small particulates in the workplace like asbestos can be extremely hazardous - enter Enviro-Vac Industrial HEPA vacuum loaders, vacuum systems and negative pressure enclosures. Asbestos HEPA vacuum
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26
Aug
2018
Is Asbestos still being used in Canada?
August 26th, 2018 | in Asbestos
Canada introduced new asbestos regulation in January that prohibits the use, sale, import, and export of the material and acknowledged that all forms of the asbestos fibres, if inhaled, can cause cancer (such as mesothelioma) and other diseases.
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26
Aug
2017
Learn about the Giant Mine Remediation Project
August 26th, 2017 |
One of the biggest environmental concerns in Canada is in the Northwest Territories. Located north of Yellowknife, the Giant Mine has been called one of the worst environmental disasters in Canadian history and an example of past ignorance
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At Enviro-Vac, we pride ourselves in providing safe, OSHA approved and professionally constructed high-risk containments for hazardous materials abatement and doing so with the attention to detail for which our clients in Canada have become
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28
Aug
2015
Hazards of Combustible Dust
August 28th, 2015 | in Abatement Services
Combustible dust is any fine material that has the ability to explode and catch fire when it mixes with air. Substances such as sugar, flour, grain, wood, many metals and some nonmetallic, inorganic materials can become combustible dust.
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Most buildings built before 1950 used lead paint. Lead paint usage continued, in diminished frequency, until 1978. Business owners operating in historic buildings may face the tricky issue of lead paint removal.
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Asbestos abatement contractor gets jail time. The message was delivered loud and clear from the BC Supreme Court to the entire asbestos abatement industry, building owners and general contractors
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14
Aug
2013
Removing the Threat of Asbestos
August 14th, 2013 | in Asbestos
The World Health Organization lists asbestos as a human carcinogen linked to lung cancer. Children are particularly vulnerable to asbestos because their lungs are still developing and they breathe more air per pound of body weight than an adult
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