Date: Thursday, July\u00a023, 2015<\/p>\n
Time: 1 to 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Location:\u00a0Savin Rock Conference Center,\u00a06 Rock Street, West Haven, CT 06516<\/p>\n
Some people who helped with clean up after Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy reported developing breathing difficulties. Our current work at UConn Health is focused on better understanding this problem and providing education so hurricane response and rebuilding workers and home occupants \u00a0will improve their preparation and reduce exposures from respiratory exposures.<\/p>\n
The training \u00a0on July\u00a023\u00a0focused on how individuals can protect themselves and others from biological exposures that affect respiratory illness when working in flooded buildings, and how to rebuild buildings more resilient to future storms.<\/p>\n
Three professionals from diverse, but complementary perspectives presented at the workshop. They are: Bill Turner, M.S., P.E., LEED A.P., founder of Turner Building Science, LLC and a national expert on the dynamics of moisture in buildings; Paul Bureau, M.S., C.I.H. expert consultant on Occupational Safety and Health, teaches at the University of Connecticut and has managed healthy and safety for major corporations; and Paula Schenck, M.P.H., the director of indoor environment and health programs at UConn Health and has held national workshops on mold and moisture in the environment for health providers and public health professionals.<\/p>\n
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