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Creating a Contaminant-Free Home: Essential Strategies and Policies

This guide highlights effective steps for maintaining a healthier home environment, emphasizing the importance of avoiding second-hand smoke and harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs). It provides insights into smoke-free housing policies, their economic benefits for property owners, and the need for smoking cessation programs. The document also elaborates on the sources of VOCs in household products and recommends effective control and ventilation strategies. By implementing these practices, homeowners can significantly reduce health risks for their families.

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Creating a Contaminant-Free Home: Essential Strategies and Policies

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  1. Steps to a Healthier Home Keep itcontaminant-free

  2. Page 9.1 Learning Objectives

  3. Page 9.1 Contaminant Buying Decisions

  4. Page 9.2 Second-Hand Smoke

  5. Page 9.2 • Tobacco Spikes in Particle Levels 1000 750 RSP (cpm) 500 250 3 1 2 Time (hours) Source: Indoor Air Quality, Infiltration and Ventilation in Residential Buildings NYSERDA 1985 [5]

  6. Page 9.2 Why Avoid Second-Hand Smoke: • Children’s Health Effects • Adult Health Effects • 60% of US population has biological evidence of exposure

  7. Page 9.3 Smoke-Free Home Rules:State Performance

  8. Page 9.4 Smoke-Free Housing Policies Smoke Free Saves Property Owners Money

  9. Page 9.4 Smoke-Free Housing Policies Other benefits • Increase Demand • Decrease Fires/Potential Insurance Discount • Reduce Tenant Conflict

  10. Page 9.4 Smoke-Free Housing Policy • Policy Approaches • Voluntary / Grassroots Efforts • Low Income Housing Tax Credit • Disclosure

  11. Page 9.4 Smoking Cessation Programs • Smoke-free policies work best if coupled with cessation resources

  12. Page 9.5 Volatile Organic Compounds • Air Fresheners • Cleaning Products • Sprays & Coatings • Formaldehyde • Carpets • Vinyl Floors • Drywall • Hobbies • Home Maintenance

  13. Page 9.5 Volatile Organic Compounds Concentration of VOC’s can be 2-5 times greater in the home. During or immediately after paint stripping activities, VOC levels can be 1,000 times higher than outdoors.

  14. Page 9.6 Why Avoid VOCs?

  15. Page 9.7

  16. Page 9.7 Reduce Potential Sources • Don’t use it if you don’t have to. • Substitute a better product

  17. Page 9.7 Steps to Control VOCs • Control the source • Ventilate

  18. Page 9.8 Third-Party Certifications • Buildings • Products and Services

  19. Page 9.8 Industry Stewardship Programs • Understand the Motivations & Research the Options • Examples • Other Programs

  20. Page 9.8 Track Emerging Issues • Healthyhomes.net listserve: • Healthyhomesnet-on@mail-list.com • Phthalates from Vinyl Products • Sulfur from Chinese Drywall • Cadmium in Jewelry?

  21. Page 9.9 And then we have meth labs . . .

  22. Page 9.9 Meth Labs Health & Safety Hazards • Explosive • Flammable • Toxic • Caustic

  23. Page 9.9 Key Messages • It is easier to prevent exposure to contaminants then it is to remove them and treat their effects. • Should contamination occur: control, contain, and clean-up. • Contaminants are not always detectable by our senses.

  24. Page 9.9 Learning Objectives

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