New Jersey Department of Health NJDOH – Recently published a guidance document for the evaluation and management of mercury containing floors. This floor issue has been circling around the state for the last year or two. Numerous investigations and some removals have occurred in the state. The NJDOH produced an earlier 1 page guidance in …
New Guidance: Mercury in NJ Schools Gym & Multi-Purpose Room FloorsRead More
Tim Popp, VP of Environmental Consulting, gave a presentation to the New Jersey Schools Insurance Group on Best Practices related to Indoor Air Quality, Mold & Mercury, on Friday, May 17, 2019 at the Joint Sub-Fund Training Day. The presentation involved the objectives on preventing issues, and in the next best-case scenarios to promote early …
Rubber-like polyurethane floors using 1,000 to 2,000 parts per million of phenyl mercuric acetate (PMA) catalyst have been installed in school multipurpose rooms, gyms, cafeterias, auditoriums, stages and indoor and outdoor tracks since the 1960s up until the early 1980’s. Suspect floors are synthetic polyurethane—not wood or vinyl tile. They are resilient and rubber-like, water-resistant, …
New Jersey Schools – Evaluating Mercury in Synthetic FlooringRead More
